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Like many millennial girls who came of age when diet culture was practically an extracurricular activity, I could mentally toggle between Weight Watchers points and the “Pocket Calorie Counter” with alarming fluency.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Millions of us toggle so frequently between our real lives and the well-curated fantasyland of our social media personas that it’s scrambled our neural pathways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Unlike Anthropic and OpenAI, which Kharazian said are incentivized to make users spend as much as possible on tokens, Cursor allows users to toggle between smarter but more expensive models and cheaper alternatives.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
But stocks aren’t a toggle switch that you flip on or off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
When I toggle my view to show the audience in the Tokyo Dome, they are shrieking his name and waving glowing batons frantically.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
At ProjectionLab and MaxiFi, the toggles for this kind of doomsday calculation are part of their regular inputs for your Social Security primary insurance amount, or PIA.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
It noted thousands of complaints by customers about "Joy-Con drift", with toggles stuck in one direction on the original version of the Switch, even when users were not touching them.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
Set on a country estate, it toggles between the Regency Era and the present and weaves together physics, history and a whodunnit involving the poet Lord Byron.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
The app also has drop-down menus and toggles, to let a user specify tools they have in their kitchen, or if they're in a hurry or not a very good cook.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
He rechecks the fuses, valves, plug pins; he toggles the receive/ send switch, blows dust off the meter selector.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
He wants more details on the fuel switches and believes an on-board electrical failure could cause the system to believe the switches were toggled to “CUTOFF.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
Mr. Whipple, in his media victory lap, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that normally when he’s spoken to former chiefs of staff they’ve toggled between background, off the record and on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
These solids can be toggled between two distinct states.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2025
Access was restored on 3 October – but the parent then found that the same websites could still be viewed using a child’s login once the “safe-search” option was toggled off in settings.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024
He toggled the joystick, stabbed at the keyboard, hit the red firing button.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
Sucking out excess humidity makes the air feel crisper and cooler without toggling the thermostat.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
To address this limitation, the researchers designed an integrated device capable of toggling between electric and magnetic toroidal vortex patterns in free-space terahertz pulses.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026
In a week in which we found ourselves toggling between “the tide is turning!” and “all is lost!”
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2025
For example, asking Gemini to “make me feel safer” will check that the doors are locked, windows are closed and—if you’re not home—lights are toggling on and off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
Twiddling a switch or knobs implies much less sense of purpose than toggling or tweaking it; see frobnicate.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
