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lurch

[lurch] / lɜrtʃ /


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Treasury yields continued to lurch higher — helping to put more pressure on stocks, which struggled during the first trading session of the week.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

The clunky lurch forward into fantasy is characteristic of the movie, which like many a teenager revels in creating a mess it can’t or won’t clean up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"We are left in the lurch, without any money, any means of support, just only the scars from the war," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Markets trust the Fed not to lurch at every wiggle in the data because the projections give them an anchor, said George Saghir, a veteran global-macro investor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Every time she closed her eyes, something made her sway and lurch as if she were at the brink of a precipice, and she snapped awake, tense with fear.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Congress has yet to seriously discuss solutions to the program’s financing issues, but as Social Security lurches toward insolvency in the coming years, legislators may be forced to start deliberations soon.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

At this point, Mr. Dessner’s instantly identifiable studio techniques—stately pianos, dry and uninflected recordings captured up close, rushing builds when a song lurches toward a climax—have become shopworn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

A few minutes later, the SUV lurches forward, then drives slowly down the street.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026

Will then lurches into a tut-tutting recapitulation of the French army chief of staff’s public statement that his nation’s people must accept the risk of losing their children to protect France from an unnamed aggressor.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

I’m daydreaming, staring out the open door at the sky when the brakes start their piercing shriek and everything lurches forward.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The narrow stairway was filled with the heavy whirring of gears and joints as the robots steadily lurched upward.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

It’s about inertia and abdication, not solutions, and while I don’t entirely love this strange comedy, I’m giddy that it’s lurched into existence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Ever since the Covid pandemic exposed the fragility of global supply chains, the shipping industry has lurched from one market-disrupting event to another.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

In the thee years since Rodgers left, Leicester have had seven managers, with sources questioning the decision-making as the Foxes have lurched from style to style with no identity.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

As Wynn’s Chevy lurched to a stop, he pushed a few buttons and a slide guitar intro began for what I could only guess was Brent Chisholm’s duet with Momma.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Yet lurching drops in some recent sessions betray investors’ underlying jitters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Since then, the start of a war in Iran has sent global stock markets lurching lower.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

One early peak of the set came when Jake Duzsik of the L.A. industrial-rock trio Health came out to duet on “The Drain,” a lurching, menacing collaborative single and a standout for both bands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

The new parody is lurching and ungainly, though: Stitching parts of various things together seems to come easier to mad scientists than filmmakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

On all sides the cliffs were alive with this evil collection of crawling, looming, creeping, lurching shapes.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster


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