gyrate
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Repo rates would then surge, hedge funds could liquidate Treasury positions en masse, and yields would gyrate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Those bearing the structures often gyrate to the beat provided by percussionists alongside religious chants and devotional folk songs.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
Jobless claims tend to gyrate during the holiday season, between Thanksgiving and early in the new year.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
Since its government-backed rescue of Credit Suisse, UBS has seen the value of its shares and bonds gyrate wildly.
From Reuters ● Mar. 22, 2023
He saw the two dial indicators gyrate frantically.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Key details: The headline increase in wholesale prices was exaggerated by a large rise in a category known as retail trade margins that often gyrates sharply from month to month.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Delia is possessed by a ghoul who makes her sing the Caribbean number in the voice of Belafonte while she gyrates with her mortified dinner guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Then, after he talks himself out, he gyrates to the music, waving his veiny arms in the air.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
In pink trousers and a matching puffer jacket, Grammy-nominated Kenyan musician Bien-Aime Alusa gyrates on stage as he sings to a bank of swaying fans, many capturing the moment on their mobile phones.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023
Even humanism, which by its name would seem to be brother to its present-day parody, perceived an ideal far above the vicious circle in which humanitarianism gyrates.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer
South Korean stocks gyrated, triggering circuit-breakers, while Charles Schwab tightened margin requirements for clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The purchasing power of gold has gyrated from one year to the next.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
He added: "As an armchair fan of the show I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen. And now it's my turn... gulp!"
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
But even since that plunge, the yield on two-year notes has gyrated sharply higher and lower.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
They tumbled, balanced and gyrated, cavorting comically across the laden tabletops without upsetting as much as a single sultana.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Stocks are gyrating as though there’s a full-blown crisis, while the S&P 500 is just 2% from its high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
“Sexistential” presents both sides of a modern mother’s Venn diagram, with Robyn gyrating in its overlapping middle, inviting us to her party.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
Yes, Britney karaoke is mostly a frivolous, gyrating nightclub fantasy, but an accessible and uplifting one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
Keep going: roller skaters gyrating gracefully or wildly to disco music.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
At a formal dinner once a professor of some science or other, wanting to make small talk, had pointed out a few insects gyrating above a candelabra.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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