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white knuckle

noun as in cliffhanger

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“We view this as a short-lived white-knuckle moment for tech stocks,” Wedbush analysts, led by Dan Ives, said in a note Sunday, adding that they still expect the sector to rally as much as 10% more before year’s end.

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Perched 8,750 feet up in a box canyon in the Colorado Rockies, it’s reachable only by twisting roads or a white-knuckle drop into one of the nation’s highest airports.

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The nifty premise of “Relay,” a new white-knuckle ride from “Hell or High Water” director David Mackenzie, is that a certain type of tech-savvy hero can, if not completely ease your anxiety, at least navigate a secret truce with those out to get you.

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It was a white-knuckle, high-wire business fit only for daredevils.

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President Donald Trump is sweating his party's white-knuckle grip on the House of Representatives, and he's pulled yet another Cabinet nomination to avoid making the GOP's legislative troubles any worse.

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