jawbone
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“If the Fed chair has the ability to try to jawbone those lower and provide some assurances,” he said, “I do think that would also provide the tailwind.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
A fragment of a jawbone found deep underground in a cave in Somerset has rewritten the story of when and how dogs became our best friends.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Titanium posts will be inserted into his jawbone, serving as new roots for the teeth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
Because the mosasaur tooth, the T. rex tooth, and the crocodylian jawbone all date to roughly the same time, about 66 million years ago, the scientists could directly compare their chemistry.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2025
There was a hairline fracture in the jawbone.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Real jawbones of dead whales were first raised on top of West Cliff in 1964 as a symbol of Whitby's maritime heritage.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Several jawbones contained smooth deposits inside their empty tooth sockets that looked different from naturally accumulated sediment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
In the decades since, scientists have unearthed about 2,000 Gigantopithecus teeth and a handful of fossil jawbones from caves throughout southern China.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
The fossils Miller and her colleagues used in their study include many teeth and some jawbones but unfortunately no complete skeletons.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2023
Some of them had the beginnings of beards, straggly tufts of hair that stood in isolated clumps on their chins, jawbones, and upper lips.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Finance Minister Shinichi Suzuki jawboned markets against pushing down the yen too much, saying earlier on Wednesday that rapid moves in the yen were "undesirable."
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2022
Just as in his ad against Cruz, Davis' monologue in "Bernie" occurred while he wore casual clothes and jawboned at a local barbecue establishment.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2018
He argued calls, jawboned umps, ran the base paths as aggressively—and menacingly—as any opposing player who’d ever tried to knock him down or spike him on a slide.
From Time ● Apr. 15, 2016
In 1995, he jawboned his way into a Smithsonian internship.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2016
He turned the Governor's office into a war room, jawboned the Republican and Democratic caucuses, met with smaller groups and individual legislators--and discovered the limits of the personal approach to politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither Modi’s jawboning nor an estimated $100 billion in Reserve Bank of India intervention has stemmed the decline so far, though, says Venkat Pasupuleti, portfolio manager for India at Dalton Investments.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
But Bessent has not just been jawboning the Dow; he has been making military pronouncements on cable news.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
Oil dropped on these remarks on Tuesday and equities bounced — even though the president was just jawboning.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
The jawboning by finance officials appears to have delivered the same result as actually intervening in the market—at least for now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Let’s talk about Murthy, because I think it’s largely been framed as a case about what’s called jawboning, right?
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2024
