lurch
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A sharp lurch lower in gold prices after the worst week of declines since the 1980s had gold flirting with bear-market territory on Monday.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026
Analysts said the lurch in Japanese bonds was amplified by weak demand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Florida; Nevada; Texas; and Utah in a lurch with little notice, no severance and scrambling to fulfill a surge of orders from customers clamoring to get their last tastes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026
He said that his family feel "left in the lurch" and described the experience like being in "purgatory".
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
Some hinted that he meant merely to sail back by Hosk to the Inmost Sea, leaving them in the lurch; others, among them Pechvarry, held that he had gone mad, and sought death.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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