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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
“Michael DM’d me,” I say, glancing up to see Poe’s reaction to my words as I toggle back onto FaceTime.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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
The movie toggles between the two narratives, slyly exploring the ways creators plunder the lives of those they know in the quest for a good story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
As the war toggles between negotiations and open conflict, China’s foreign-policy apparatus has to deal with the repercussions of its support for Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
When I returned a few minutes later, Katz had accumulated a small, appreciative crowd and was demonstrating the use and theory of various straps and toggles on his backpack.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
During the 40-minute phone conversation, starting in his car and finishing after Villaraigosa arrived home in Los Angeles, he toggled between criticisms of Harris and statements of good will toward a one-time political ally.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
She toggled the appropriate keys and spoke clearly into the headset.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Michael Steel prepared for the Boston Marathon by toggling between short and long runs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
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
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