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These two categories often gyrate up and down and exaggerate changes in GDP.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

From 1979 to 1982 when the Fed was targeting the money supply, interest rates would gyrate with each weekly release of the money supply data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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

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

Whilst, therefore, the storm, in the northern hemisphere, gyrates from right to left, in the southern hemisphere, it gyrates from left to right; both gyrations being against the course of the sun.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes

South Korean stocks gyrated, triggering circuit-breakers, while Charles Schwab tightened margin requirements for clients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

The purchasing power of gold has gyrated from one year to the next.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

To demonstrate their fondness for dancing, they had Siri play “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars and then jumped, twisted and gyrated like teens at homecoming.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

On a recent Wednesday, a Chinese fire dancer gyrated to the drone of a didgeridoo, an Indigenous Australian instrument, in the courtyard of an Israeli musician’s home.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

They tumbled, balanced and gyrated, cavorting comically across the laden tabletops without upsetting as much as a single sultana.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

In the fog of war, precise data is scarce and the battlefield is shifting too fast for investors, leading to gyrating oil prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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

Based on some of the mysterious events we witnessed that episode, like the gyrating spirit that leads Rose to a grisly tableaux of frozen bodies, a word like “weird” seems woefully insufficient.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

The rock music was booming, the dancers on stage were gyrating, and the crowd was going wild waving thousands of Taiwan flags.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024

“And,” he began, “the truck driver said the last thing he saw was the man gyrating wildly with his arms and legs pumping up and down as if he was on the dance floor.”

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos