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seesaw

verb as in move back and forth

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Express forecastForecast in detailWe’re in for a bit of a weather seesaw over the next few days.

Washington tourist attractions have engaged in a seesaw battle with the coronavirus this year.

As schools seesaw between open and closed, some teachers are left without direction, feeling undervalued and underutilized.

That seesaw season still gave the Brewers 91 wins in total, but their bad 60-game stretch — with a winning percentage 34 points below what they had in their other games — ultimately cost them a playoff spot.

When your heartbeat is going, then it’s just loading up the seesaw to one side.

After a back and forth seesaw race, both candidates were locked on 49% with 99% of the votes counted.

Absent a complete ban, or total irrationality, judges should simply step off the seesaw.

If the government infringes a protected right, one side of the seesaw goes in the air and the right is lifted and protected.

After months of seesaw battles in the Sahara Desert, Libya's rebels are now making their first serious push to Tripoli.

If it waits for the political seesaw by which both parties avoid responsibility, there will be small chance of a navy.

I lay silent, watching a bird seesaw on the vine which clambers over my window-ledge in friendly fashion.

I whipped the car back, spun it in a seesaw, and took off back towards the first road block.

After prolonged northeast rain a bright day, and with it the setting of sail, a many-handed seesaw at the windlass, and departure.

There was a barrel or two, an enormous wooden ball, a collapsible fold-up seesaw and other impedimenta of a trained-animal act.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to seesaw, such as: fluctuate, teeter, vacillate, waver, alternate, and rock.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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