swing
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Briefing before the court is in full swing.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
As this year's harvest season entered full swing, a winery in western Ukraine had an additional task to oversee: installing solar panels to help it weather blackouts caused by Russian military strikes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Sabalenka eventually closed it out 7-5 and the momentum inside Ashe seemed to swing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“He’s gonna swing at strikes, take balls, put together good at-bats,” Roberts said before De Paula made his major league debut Friday in the Dodgers’ 6-2 win over the Miami Marlins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Had my fitting for the show. I was expecting to see you, but they said it was your day off. I thought I’d swing by here.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
"It was definitely tit for tat and definitely a game of momentum swinging," said centre Jones.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
By placing the camera behind Abrams so it was "swinging around to look at what he's looking at," he choreographed it such that it "feels video game-like" from that first-person perspective.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
After a few years in which mainstream culture at least made noises about retiring the worst excesses of early-aughts thinspo, the pendulum appears to be swinging back.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
The data are swinging traders’ bets in favor of a rate increase next week because of the report’s implications for the inflation gauge that the Fed tracks—the personal consumption expenditures price index.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The first thing I knew, the monkeys were all around us: in the underbrush on both sides of the trail, swinging through the trees, and hopping along on the trail.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The match swung back and forth, with neither pair able to sustain a telling lead, but three birdies in a row from the 11th gave the Swedes a two-hole lead.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
That’s when Maye, the breakout star of last season, made the baffling decision that swung the first game of the 2026 NFL season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Former world champion Prince Naseem Hamed and UFC star Paddy Pimblett watched from ringside as Pili swung wildly in the fifth, only for Taylor to make her miss and fire back.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
After the Mercedes swung around and law enforcement vehicles surrounded it, the driver stepped out with his hands up — only to swiftly step back inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
She knocked, but in lieu of answer, the door swung open.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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