sideways

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“If you look at the private-credit deals that have gone sideways, there’s a software element to the majority of them,” said Alex Chaloff, chief investment officer at Bernstein Private Wealth Management.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Their findings show that the fault moved sideways by 2.5 meters in just 1.3 seconds, reaching a top speed of 3.2 meters per second.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

“Bottlenecks,” one person told me, describing how people were being shuffled forward and sideways without clear explanation.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026

“Equities have an oversized place in household portfolios and corporate behavior. The shift to a sideways trending, volatile equity market is not something anyone is prepared for.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

The sled began to creep up on the dogs and as it did, it lost steering and turned sideways and rolled over.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen