yo-yo
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Repeated weight loss followed by weight regain, often called "yo-yo dieting" or weight cycling, has long been viewed as unhealthy and potentially even worse than staying overweight.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
They use a "flywheel exercise device," similar to a yo-yo, that can allow for aerobics like rowing as well as provide resistance to perform moves like weighted squats and deadlifts.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
In combination with the 'boost', which allows the driver to override the car's programmed systems to have maximum electrical energy on demand, this has led to what has been referred to as "yo-yo racing".
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
The sector’s shrinkage reflects years of yo-yo profitability and of returning gobs of cash to shareholders because companies lacked good reinvestment opportunities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Ice moved smoothly around the floor, thin legs wide apart, head bobbing, the ball moving from his hand to the floor and rushing back to his light palms as if it was a giant yo-yo.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
Duncan Toys has been producing yo-yos, flying discs and model gliders in China, and Washington's escalating tariffs with Beijing last year similarly forced him to pause imports.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
One of the sweetest tributes to Smothers can be found on the YoYoExpert website, where fans reminisce about the brothers’ “Just say YO: The Yo-Yo Man Instructional Video” and post photographs of their Smothers-branded yo-yos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
But the business slowly expanded and by 1986 Christian and Sylviane's company, CSP Diffusion, opened its first factory in our hometown, Oyonnax, making various plastic items such as hairbands, combs and even yo-yos.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2022
He promoted his renegade brand, carefully marketing Hells Angels-themed T-shirts, yo-yos, sunglasses and California wines.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2022
Among the whistles on colorful coiled plastic key chains, small blue rubber footballs, Frisbees, yo-yos, bubbles, and glow jewelry, I saw green and red and blue glitter pens.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
It would be their second relegation in as many seasons and third in four years, having previously yo-yoed between the Premier League and Championship.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Since then, the impressive abode has bounced on and off the market multiple times, as the Baldwins have yo-yoed on their decision to sell it.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
Those details could be key for Chevron, whose shares have yo-yoed this week.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
Wall Street has yo-yoed to a mixed finish as rising oil prices and bond yields cranked up the pressure even higher on the stock market.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
Gregor and Boots shot up fifty feet in the air and yo-yoed up and down like they were on a big rubber band.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
Earnings releases from Alphabet and Tesla on Wednesday could give clearer direction to yo-yoing tech stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The early laps of the race may well feature yet another yo-yoing battle between the Mercedes and Ferrari drivers, as has marked out the early stages of both races so far this season.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
CONGRESS, Ariz. — The hands are in constant motion, yo-yoing the wheel left, right, left in small corrections and full turns.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Sunday was more or less a rerun of every Heinicke performance, yo-yoing between massive miscues and inexplicable brilliance, which means coaches will have to look at the margins for improvement.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022
And amidst the yo-yoing of the whole four, the chaise stopped.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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