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“That’s the reason why we’ve seen prices basically bob up and down.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Their heads and necks will bob up and down, more closely resembling lances drawn and thrust in a medieval battle than silly birds comically bumbling around.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2022

Songs organically bob up from the instrumental score, which grooves along with repetitive patterns, broken waltzes and echoes of the song melodies.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021

You could join in the jumping by tapping your space bar, and the screen would bob up and down — in tune with the music, if you were rhythmically inclined.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020

Finally, a light detached itself from the shore and began to bob up and down in the darkness.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt




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