seesaw

The past few days of Pike’s life were marked by a seesaw of court decisions as her lawyers tried every angle to save her life.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

She ultimately took a later flight, but that didn’t put a stop to their emotional seesaw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Recalling how Jang compared his work to riding a seesaw, where he held down one end, she says she sees it differently now.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Over the past month or so, daily action, particularly in the U.S., has started to resemble a seesaw.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026

In his relations with her he felt that he was riding a seesaw; never were they on a common level; either he or she was up in the air.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Also in Weekend Reads: How to change your approach as the stock-market seesaws, some good news for home buyers, and advice from The Moneyist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Bonds operate like seesaws: When the interest rate, or yield, falls, the price rises.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

The show "seesaws between thrilling and annoying", according to USA Today's Kelly Lawler, while the Atlantic's Sophie Gilbert described most of it as "largely joyless and grim".

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

His performance as Seth Milchick in Season 2 of “Severance” showcases his range, as his character seesaws from a cheery to chilling middle manager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

During recess the boys would divide in two groups, chasing each other wildly around the swings and seesaws, Redcoats against the colonies.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Japan's debts are more than twice the size of the entire economy, and in recent weeks yields on long-dated bonds have hit record highs while the yen has seesawed.

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

Also on Tuesday morning, new data from the Labor Department showed that hiring seesawed in October and November data showed that hiring gained by 64,000, with unemployment ticking up to 4.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

Meanwhile, Chewy’s stock seesawed to a decline of 0.3% in recent afternoon trading.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025

At other times, the 26-year-old charged with murdering the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare seesawed between pain and numbness in his lower back and genital area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024

The fickle Fulcrum of Fortune had seesawed back again, this time with Penelope on the upward-bound seat.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

The yearly rate of inflation has shown a similar seesawing pattern.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

After months of seesawing growth and contraction, the US job market posted strong gains in the last three months -- but Thursday's data revised some of those numbers down.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

In the seesawing tedium of daily traffic, slow and fast, the e-motor silently and seamlessly supports the big V8 in those few hundred milliseconds it takes to spool up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

They have looked on the tempests of war, economic turmoil, civil unrest and seesawing politics and remained, as Shakespeare said, an ever-fixed mark, adapting to atmospheric shifts but essentially unchanged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025

Then we were scrambling to the hatch and sprinting down and down the endless seesawing staircase, hopeless that we could reach the cage before it sank but hysterical to try to anyway.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs