gyrate
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Dealmaking in the oil-and-gas sector, in particular, has faced challenges as oil prices gyrate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
“Markets can gyrate and change their opinions regularly, erratically, and are often quite wrong,” said Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income, in emailed comments Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026
Those bearing the structures often gyrate to the beat provided by percussionists alongside religious chants and devotional folk songs.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
Gigot’s poems gyrate from intimate introspection to cold science, seemingly bubbling up from swampy pastures framed by cottonwoods and poplars.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
He saw the two dial indicators gyrate frantically.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Key details: The headline increase in wholesale prices was exaggerated by a large rise in a category known as retail trade margins that often gyrates sharply from month to month.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Delia is possessed by a ghoul who makes her sing the Caribbean number in the voice of Belafonte while she gyrates with her mortified dinner guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Then, after he talks himself out, he gyrates to the music, waving his veiny arms in the air.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
In pink trousers and a matching puffer jacket, Grammy-nominated Kenyan musician Bien-Aime Alusa gyrates on stage as he sings to a bank of swaying fans, many capturing the moment on their mobile phones.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023
The hare postures and gyrates in front of the hound.
From In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Stocks have gyrated on any ray of hope coming out of the Middle East, and that makes sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
The purchasing power of gold has gyrated from one year to the next.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
He added: "As an armchair fan of the show I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen. And now it's my turn... gulp!"
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
Geno Auriemma gyrated and gestured in anguish on the sideline as the No. 2-seeded Huskies launched a series of passes that missed the mark and sailed out of bounds.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
Mop gave a thumbs-up while Bren gyrated and did some weird dance move and almost fell over.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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Stocks are gyrating as though there’s a full-blown crisis, while the S&P 500 is just 2% from its high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
“Sexistential” presents both sides of a modern mother’s Venn diagram, with Robyn gyrating in its overlapping middle, inviting us to her party.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
The team dressed in Santa hats and reindeer antlers, throwing the slowly gyrating microphone to each other to speak while candy canes floated around their heads.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
Yes, Britney karaoke is mostly a frivolous, gyrating nightclub fantasy, but an accessible and uplifting one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
There he crouched with heavy-lidded, unseeing eyes, not asleep, not awake, not dead, not alive, still as a stone, gyrating with the world.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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