Verb (used with object) : The real-estate market has been whipsawed by high interest rates and unemployment. From Dictionary.com.
This bargaining tactic is called the whipsaw, and B.C. taxpayers are about to feel it in the months ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Kootenay Rockies - News] Reference
One reader makes the point that the 'whipsaw' potential is high, and I agree wholeheartedly. From Wordnik.com. [Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory] Reference
The dollar held on to its gains in whipsaw trading. From Wordnik.com. [European Markets Turn on Mubarek Departure] Reference
And investors 'fickleness these days can whipsaw rates. From Wordnik.com. [Why Only Some] Reference
But there ` s-- it ` s just a whipsaw for the family, Nancy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2007] Reference
You don't whipsaw your strategy every time something comes up. From Wordnik.com. [Questions for … Michael Boylson] Reference
Bottom line is, I don't have a problem with the whipsaw effect. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2005] Reference
And we whipsaw the results back and forth amongst these groups. From Wordnik.com. [MSNBC: Last Night's Delegate Breakdown Shows Hillary's Gains Were Modest] Reference
Stocks fell for the sixth consecutive day after a whipsaw session. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, Dow's Record Was Year Ago Today] Reference
Never mind the whipsaw effects of society, technology, and culture. From Wordnik.com. [A Gloom of One's Own] Reference
He knew, she thought, feeling the adrenaline whipsaw through her veins. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking the News to Farash] Reference
The framers wisely sought to limit whipsaw from razor-thin margin reversals. From Wordnik.com. [‘Liberals tired of health care compromise.’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
The boards we used in the building had to be sawed by us two slaves with a whipsaw. From Wordnik.com. [Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson] Reference
For all his disinterest in school, Jody had a mind as sharp and supple as a whipsaw. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Blood]
Here, by hand, with an inadequate whipsaw, they sawed the spruce - trunks into lumber. From Wordnik.com. [LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES] Reference
Mr. Fuld privately sought to dispel the chatter, but the share price continued to whipsaw. From Wordnik.com. [Lehman Struggles] Reference
The whipsaw has left people of two minds: Some investment professionals are urging caution. From Wordnik.com. [After wild week in markets, experts split on what to do next] Reference
The student, now understanding the whipsaw position in which he found himself, was not happy. From Wordnik.com. [September 2005] Reference
The Congress-persons whipsaw you back and forth between tighter regulation and less regulation. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Government and Regulation] Reference
The strongest blasts bent the masts of the smaller sailboats, causing them to whipsaw and dance. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Edge] Reference
Fecteau was wary that this was another whipsaw episode and that he would end up back in his cell. From Wordnik.com. [Fecteau, Richard] Reference
For the field, there were narrow hoes and weeding-hoes, axes of different types, as well as a whipsaw. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Each of the agencies could be tested as the financial markets continue to whipsaw, and the election heats up. From Wordnik.com. [Bush Presses Senate on Vacancies] Reference
Europe's debt problems have caused American stocks to whipsaw in recent days, rising one day, then falling the next. From Wordnik.com. [Euro debt problems hammer stocks, prompt broad sell-off] Reference
Any investors watch the business cycles that whipsaw suppliers of tools and materials to the semiconductor industry. From Wordnik.com. [Semiconductor Equipment] Reference
You won't have governments falling every nine months and the kind of turbulence associated with whipsaw changes in direction. From Wordnik.com. [Afflicting the Comfortable] Reference
And we are in the final hour of trading when the market, as we have witnessed all too frequently, is capable of whipsaw moves. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2007] Reference
I do have a problem with the players that are causing the whipsaw and the fact that they are not transparent in what they're doing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2005] Reference
The rich dark wood of its walls and floor -- all rudely smoothed with the broadaxe and the whipsaw -- hung overhead in massive beams. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
The point is that Juno represents an almost magical configuration of very talented people with very much the same brand of whipsaw humor. From Wordnik.com. [Maybe Baby] Reference
FOREMAN: A bit of whipsaw from the president there, in one breath saying he may be thrown out, on the secondhand we'd like to support him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2007] Reference
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