fits and starts
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Forward guidance as currently practiced by the Fed evolved in fits and starts, each fit or start motivated by some idiosyncratic event.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The affordability tour has only happened in fits and starts, however, and the president has not always stuck to the script.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Breaks in the case have come and fits and starts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
After a courtship that unfurled in fits and starts, they married in 1996.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
As it skids down the steep, irregular terrain in fits and starts, the mass of ice splinters into a jumble of huge, tottering blocks called seracs, some as large as office buildings.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
