swinging
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Treasury yields have been swinging between relief and fresh highs since Wednesday’s lower-than-expected U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“My grandparents were murdered in concentration camps. And to see how the world, again, is swinging that direction, where there are too many people in favor of a totalitarian government, is crazy,” Eliot said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
"It was definitely tit for tat and definitely a game of momentum swinging," said centre Jones.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
By placing the camera behind Abrams so it was "swinging around to look at what he's looking at," he choreographed it such that it "feels video game-like" from that first-person perspective.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
I could hear his legs swinging back and forth, back and forth, scraping against the carpet.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
He peeped in, and between the swingings caught glimpses of little blue and yellow flowers arranged in tight bunches in hanging vases.
From The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Ethel Cook Eliot
In a considerable shock the successive diminishing swingings amount to dozens before they become so slight as to elude perception.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
There are stationary swingings, as well as swingings of the kind to which I just alluded.
From Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by Dr. John Scudder
But she began to swing heavily, with deep, slow swingings.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn
But all oscillations are equalized by swingings to the other side.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Elbert Hubbard
The answer is partly that blues are big these days, partly that Johnny Winter is the swingingest, funkiest new white blues singer to come out of the South in years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, after four years' touring with a small combo, Basie collected a new 16-piece ensemble in 1952, and within a year it was fully established as the swingingest band in the land.
From Time Magazine Archive
Basie collected a new full-size outfit 16 months ago, bounced back with a reputation as the swingingest band in the land.
From Time Magazine Archive
Occasionally, a happy song acquires a little reverse teen feel: My name is Oliver Cool I'm the most swingingest boy in school, but the most trustworthy bets are exploration of the lower reaches of emotions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fifteen rowdy and tender numbers played by one of the swingingest bands of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
