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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
He can toggle between modes — attack dog in conservative media, measured moderate in mixed company — but the transitions are visible.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
But stocks aren’t a toggle switch that you flip on or off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
He let it run, then flicked the toggle for the number-one pump in order to run his deck hose.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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
On “Folded,” Kehlani toggles between contrite and commanding, weaving her vocals around a guitar line that moves like a Slinky tumbling down a staircase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Queen's Park manager Callum Davidson rocked back in his chair in the Ibrox press box, pulled his jacket hood over his face, and pulled the toggles in anguish.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
Jumping up as the car’s flame went higher, he pushed the control box’s toggles down hard.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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
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
The president had spent his 80th birthday toggling between congratulatory calls and urgent conversations with senior aides and foreign leaders as he raced to lock in the fragile preliminary peace agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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
“That’s a description of the outside world. Then the next line is, ‘I’m just stuck inside the gloom,’ toggling back to the internal emotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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
