flip-flop

Example Sentences

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“The flip-flop developments in US-China tariffs war have added volatility to the market, further fueling trading activity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

Overall, this might look like a wild flip-flop: A popular and widely sold supplement with some science behind it just doesn’t seem to work.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2025

The 48-year-old led a group of four engineers tasked with replacing a Trisomat screen, known colloquially as a "flip-flop", at a materials recycling facility on Twelvetrees Crescent in Bow, east London.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024

After years of flip-flop trials, they were exonerated in 2015, but the slander conviction endured against Knox for wrongly accusing an innocent man, the Congolese bar owner who employed her part time.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

We looked at a version of this principle when we saw that to help the reader keep track of a single entity across multiple mentions, a writer should not flip-flop between unnecessary synonyms.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker