swing
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But Ossoff, who’s running for reelection in a swing state that Trump won twice, is a deliberate and relentlessly on-message communicator—sometimes to the point of looking and sounding a little scripted.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
For about a month, Báez trained with Cardinals coaches on his swing in an effort to improve his contact rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“That might, for him, be the swing block,” DiCamillo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Despite the scale of the tragedy, Woro is coming back to life, a resident Isah Mogaji told AFP, with the village market in full swing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
We were about to swing back onto the trail and Peter Avakoff shouted, "Good."
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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But that offered few favors for Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” or Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” where the Bowl has regularly hosted far more idiomatic, swinging performances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
But in Australia, when he got out driving Scott Boland in Perth or swinging at Mitchell Starc in Brisbane, I feared he could waste what he has worked so hard to have.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
AXT reported second-quarter revenue of $47.6 million on July 30, up 165% — swinging to a profit while seeing gross margins dramatically expand.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Heavy speculative positioning can result in messy outcomes when it suddenly reverses, swinging global markets violently as speculators are forced to cut borrowing in unrelated areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
He’s walking fast, red in the face, swinging his arms.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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“There were certain acts that just filled the house and certain ones that didn’t,” says the park’s president, Tyler Carter, adding that early performances swung drastically from hip-hop to Christian rock entertainers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
He threw three straight curveballs to Carrigg, bouncing the first and last in the dirt, and Carrigg swung at all three.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
"The train swung wildly for around 10 seconds, like it was about to tilt over," Jon Young told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The eurozone swung to an adjusted trade surplus of 1.8 billion euros in June from a deficit of 6.1 billion euros in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He did not wait for an answer but swung both bags onto his shoulders and began striding toward the pointed rock.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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