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gyrate

[jahy-rayt, jahy-rayt, jahy-rayt] / ˈdʒaɪ reɪt, dʒaɪˈreɪt, ˈdʒaɪ reɪt /


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Repo rates would then surge, hedge funds could liquidate Treasury positions en masse, and yields would gyrate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Markets can gyrate and change their opinions regularly, erratically, and are often quite wrong,” said Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income, in emailed comments Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026

Those bearing the structures often gyrate to the beat provided by percussionists alongside religious chants and devotional folk songs.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

At 30.7% late on Wednesday, that gauge of how much traders expect the shares to gyrate still remains well below the high of 82% touched in March.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023

He saw the two dial indicators gyrate frantically.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Key details: The headline increase in wholesale prices was exaggerated by a large rise in a category known as retail trade margins that often gyrates sharply from month to month.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

Delia is possessed by a ghoul who makes her sing the Caribbean number in the voice of Belafonte while she gyrates with her mortified dinner guests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

Then, after he talks himself out, he gyrates to the music, waving his veiny arms in the air.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025

In pink trousers and a matching puffer jacket, Grammy-nominated Kenyan musician Bien-Aime Alusa gyrates on stage as he sings to a bank of swaying fans, many capturing the moment on their mobile phones.

From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023

The hare postures and gyrates in front of the hound.

From In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Korean stocks gyrated, triggering circuit-breakers meant to stop losses on the way down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

The purchasing power of gold has gyrated from one year to the next.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

He added: "As an armchair fan of the show I have watched in awe as people have twirled and gyrated across the screen. And now it's my turn... gulp!"

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

Geno Auriemma gyrated and gestured in anguish on the sideline as the No. 2-seeded Huskies launched a series of passes that missed the mark and sailed out of bounds.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

Behind the big front windows of the dance halls, people gyrated to pounding music as though they were struck with some serious disease.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

In the fog of war, precise data is scarce and the battlefield is shifting too fast for investors, leading to gyrating oil prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

“Sexistential” presents both sides of a modern mother’s Venn diagram, with Robyn gyrating in its overlapping middle, inviting us to her party.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

Yes, Britney karaoke is mostly a frivolous, gyrating nightclub fantasy, but an accessible and uplifting one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

Wouldn’t you feel better if all of your money was in cash and not in gyrating stocks?

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

The compass was still gyrating loosely, but the altimeter was functioning accurately, as far as he could judge, and showed them to be floating about a thousand feet above the seashore and parallel with it.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman


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