jockeying

Definition of jockeyingnext
present participle of jockey
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Verb
  • One particularly useful feature is the panoramic view monitor, which provides a bird’s-eye camera view of the vehicle when maneuvering in tight spaces.
    Sponsored Content, Denver Post, 2 May 2026
  • Ten prisoners housed in the Orleans Justice Center made their escape last spring, maneuvering out of a small hole in a wall and making their way out into the night.
    Devon Sayers, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • No need to worry about repairs, staging, open houses and negotiating.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
  • As a city that is always negotiating with modernity, the tradition of jol khabar remains a comforting anchor, binding generations to their cultural roots and evoking nostalgia.
    Madhushree Basu Roy, Saveur, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • As the Ado Annie-like Betsy, a horny teen-ager whose father owns a shotgun, Kurtz is playing a character who should be, and kind of is, a one-joke punch line.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Twin sisters Jordan and Jaedyn Gomez, playing for Boone, lost their second round individual bracket doubles match 6-0, 6-0 against Doral Academy’s top seeded duo of Payton Seidle-Lubowitz and Stefany Zamora.
    Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Stafford is 38 and managing degenerative back issues.
    Zak Keefer, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Micky Arison is listed as managing general partner.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • This can involve pretending to be an IT customer support and manipulating an employee at a target company into handing over internal access.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But even then, our team of artists got in there and just started manipulating things.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • All of which is great news for Adam Silver and everyone else pulling a paycheck from the league.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Seated calf raises can lower post-meal blood sugar spikes by gradually pulling glucose from the bloodstream.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Rai Cinema International Distribution, which is handling world sales, will unveil first footage in Cannes, with the production slated for completion in the fourth quarter of the year.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Endorphins and serotonin spike, and over time the brain gets better at handling stressful conditions.
    Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • This being Nantucket, the team contended with stringent zoning regulations governing building footprints, rooflines, and window heights; finessing the layout felt like expert-level Tetris.
    David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Trump has a rare and underestimated talent for finessing these internal fissures.
    Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Jockeying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jockeying. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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