jawbone
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is projecting a more humble view after failing to jawbone the bond market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Nor is he using “forward guidance” to jawbone markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“As we discovered more and more bones, especially the jawbone, we realized this is definitely human,” Lindsey Melvin told the station.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In a dry riverbed deep within a forest near the Amazon in Brazil, paleontologists uncovered a fossilized jawbone from a previously unknown ancient animal.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026
She is close enough that I can see the small pink veins, like seams on the back of a delicate leaf, spreading across her cheeks, the downy fur on her jawbone, her bristly black eyebrows.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
She recovered key anatomical features including teeth, jawbones, and parts of the skull, which later allowed scientists to identify the specimen as a new species.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 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
Some of them had the beginnings of beards, straggly tufts of hair that stood in isolated clumps on their chins, jawbones, and upper lips.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
"It turns out… that they jawboned him for a year-and-a-half," Barr said on Thursday.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 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
This has long been an issue for the U.S. government, which has jawboned these countries to little effect.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2016
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
Okun figures that between 1966 and 1968, wholesale prices rose an average 2.3% a year for most industries; they went up only 1.7% in 15 "jawboned" industries, including steel, copper, autos and aluminum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another, says Nuttall, is that constant jawboning about deals has led to several price plunges, making traders cautious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Notably, it has not been adjudicated whether or not the FCC has crossed the line into jawboning.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
Oil dropped on these remarks on Tuesday and equities bounced — even though the president was just jawboning.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
This consolidation piece is happening at the same time as the jawboning piece.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2025
