swerve
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Ford’s “iconic” swerve: CEO Jim Farley is culling the automaker’s broad lineup of often “boring” models to focus on the “iconic vehicle” business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The views were spectacular, if you had the guts to swerve your eyes from the white-knuckling road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
But things can just swerve health-wise—well, anytime in life, but especially for octogenarians.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
I want to swerve here to talk about the word that keeps coming to mind when I look at the president’s leadership, and it is “mood.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
I swerve slightly to the right to avoid a series of large, jagged rocks that poke out from the sand.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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There are a number of weird swerves in this generous, if convoluted, offer from your relative.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
We should be so lucky to experience a film that swerves just when we think we’ve made up our minds.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
And so what happens on a day-to-day basis, there are enormous swerves in what one should expect for the United States in particular.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026
One section swerves into the ratification of the Constitution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
She sits in the park, watching the kids play and the skate-boarders do their tricks and swerves at the skate bowl.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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He headed toward a schoolyard but when he spotted kids, he swerved and crash-landed into a tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
And if they couldn’t stick to the center, they did the next best thing and swerved to the shoulder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The bus swerved to avoid her, meaning she was not seriously injured.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Shoemaker swerved right off the 210 and rolled his Ford Bronco down the embankment, about three stories high, and onto the 57 freeway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
A car swerved around them, and another, before someone finally stopped and waved them ahead.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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Given his track record as a pop hitmaker, it was reasonable to wonder if Ms. Bridgers might be swerving toward the mainstream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
And Alonzo’s Anne and Zach Trent’s Skateboard Fenton, the young lovers swerving around parental obstacles, are a delightful throwback to those gaga California kids from the age of “Gidget.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Images circulating on social media showed the truck performing a wheelie before swerving off the track and crashing into the barriers separating the public from the track.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
He was seen earlier veering into the grass verge of the eastbound carriageway between junctions 6 and 5, as well as swerving between lanes.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
I imagine myself trying to eat while swooping and swerving inside the transporter.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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