sideways
Example Sentences
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While this amount of sideways movement is typical for strike-slip earthquakes, the very short duration of the motion stands out as a significant discovery.
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
“And that grind up in the market has shifted to a grind sideways and now a grind down given sober economic data, macro indicators, and the Iran war disruption,” he added.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
After they turned the obelisk sideways, I could not bear to go back and watch them take it away.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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