jawbone
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Nor is he using “forward guidance” to jawbone markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Less than a week later, two sisters paddleboarding on the lake found a human jawbone and skeletal remains in a nearby sandbar, according to KTNV-TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“If the Fed chair has the ability to try to jawbone those lower and provide some assurances,” he said, “I do think that would also provide the tailwind.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The jawbone was found in excavations from the 1920s in Gough's cave in Cheddar Gorge, now famous for storing its famous cheese.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
She relished reporting the Fourth of July Toast: “John Adams. May he, like Samson, slay thousands of Frenchmen with the jawbone of Jefferson.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Real jawbones of dead whales were first raised on top of West Cliff in 1964 as a symbol of Whitby's maritime heritage.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Several jawbones contained smooth deposits inside their empty tooth sockets that looked different from naturally accumulated sediment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
A digital comparison of the newly uncovered mandible with 83 other jawbones confirmed a strange mix of ancient and modern anatomical features.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
Some of the jab jab masqueraders wore cow horns on their heads or carried cow jawbones, plastic snakes or chains — a reminder of slavery.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2018
Her forehead is high and smooth, her jawbones sloping and unusually long.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
And where he lacks legislative authority, the president has jawboned corporate executives to cut drug prices, airline fees and the cost of internet access.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023
Finance Minister Shinichi Suzuki jawboned markets against pushing down the yen too much, saying earlier on Wednesday that rapid moves in the yen were "undesirable."
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2022
He argued calls, jawboned umps, ran the base paths as aggressively—and menacingly—as any opposing player who’d ever tried to knock him down or spike him on a slide.
From Time ● Apr. 15, 2016
Hoover jawboned businesses to prevent them from cutting workers' wages.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2011
Banks also have other ways of getting more money out of customers if they are jawboned out of raising the prime; they can, for example, simply grant the prime rate to fewer borrowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither Modi’s jawboning nor an estimated $100 billion in Reserve Bank of India intervention has stemmed the decline so far, though, says Venkat Pasupuleti, portfolio manager for India at Dalton Investments.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
But Bessent has not just been jawboning the Dow; he has been making military pronouncements on cable news.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026
Oil dropped on these remarks on Tuesday and equities bounced — even though the president was just jawboning.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
True, the Fed can influence the yield on that longer-dated paper through its current short-term rate policy, economic projections and jawboning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2025
Let’s talk about Murthy, because I think it’s largely been framed as a case about what’s called jawboning, right?
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2024
