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gyrate

[jahy-reyt, jahy-reyt, jahy-reyt] / ˈdʒaɪ reɪt, dʒaɪˈreɪt, ˈdʒaɪ reɪt /


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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

Oil prices can gyrate sharply, so Fed officials prefer to look at a separate measure of inflation known as the core rate that strips out energy.

From MarketWatch Jun. 9, 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

Gigot’s poems gyrate from intimate introspection to cold science, seemingly bubbling up from swampy pastures framed by cottonwoods and poplars.

From Seattle Times Jun. 16, 2023

He saw the two dial indicators gyrate frantically.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

All these were secondary matters and had to give way to the central idea that occupied his whole mind, that revolved around his work and his thoughts, as the earth gyrates about the sun.

From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Arthur Glyn Leonard

Stocks have gyrated on any ray of hope coming out of the Middle East, and that makes sense.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 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

Markets have gyrated this week on concerns over the toll on banks from the fastest set of interest rate hikes in decades.

From Seattle Times Mar. 16, 2023

Mop gave a thumbs-up while Bren gyrated and did some weird dance move and almost fell over.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

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

“Dance music is Black music,” Fox told the crowd in between his gyrating and turning up.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 24, 2025

Based on some of the mysterious events we witnessed that episode, like the gyrating spirit that leads Rose to a grisly tableaux of frozen bodies, a word like “weird” seems woefully insufficient.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2024

There was no gyrating sack on his shoulder, so he hadn’t recaptured Witching Hour like he’d said he would.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles




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