toggles

present tense third-person singular of toggle

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of toggles Identifiable by elaborate braiding, decorative buttons, and often toggles across the chest, military coats — also known as the Hussar jacket or Pelisse — appear to be making a comeback. Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025 There are buttons to manage power, pairing, volume, and playback, in addition to the large ULT button that toggles the ULT effect between off, ULT 1, and ULT 2. PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025 Mackenzie smoothly toggles between storylines, ratcheting up the tension and giving us quick but useful character sketches. Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toggles
Verb
  • Other than Valak appearing in both The Conjuring 2 and The Nun, there’s no apparent link between the two movies — but in The Nun’s sequel, a plot point emerges that ties the movies together.
    Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The book also ties Pennywise’s origins to Derry’s original Native American population in a colonial allegory.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The carry handles each have a magnetic piece that then clips together to form a single bar to grasp.
    Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025
  • For messing up, Martha clips Gabriel’s wings, forcing him to live life as a human, with a new casual wardrobe to match and a taste for fast food.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When the sky darkens, her stomach clenches.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In a similar way, a man who is defiant stiffens his neck, squares his shoulders, lowers his brows, and clenches his fists with his knuckles forward.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Crisp air hangs heavy with the promise of rain.
    Christina Fang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Closer to the front door, a simple gallery wall hangs above a wooden bench.
    Amanda Sims, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dow clinches record high The Dow on Friday clinched its first closing record high of the year.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The sequencer pastes together the strings and the quality scores, along with some other metadata, read by read, to form what is called a FASTQ file.
    Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
Verb
  • Typically said when someone copies a trend, latches onto a friend's obsession, or just teases in a playful way.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That against-the-odds spirit is what the documentary crew latches onto as the thread tying their story together.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This is an adjustable graphics-card brace, and its screw tightens the part that clamps it to the slide.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Here, Lloyd clamps a muzzle — part fetish club, part Bane — over Lucky’s mouth while Pozzo pushes him in a wheelchair (the actor, Michael Patrick Thornton, uses a chair).
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Toggles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toggles. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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