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  • noun Plural form of gyration.

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Examples

  • The fact that one in six Americans is either unemployed or trapped in low-paying part-time employment due to the lack of full-time positions, is a far more significant economic indicator than short-term gyrations on Wall Street or periodic upward anomalies confronting an otherwise downward economic trend.

    Sheldon Filger: Obama's Economic Crisis Team is Full of Green Shoots 2009

  • Only they know for sure how much their angry words and heated gyrations from the uproarious losses in Miami turned their heads, when they needed focus the most.

    USATODAY.com - Owner's behavior blurred Mavs' focus 2006

  • The Chicago Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index, a measure of investors 'nervousness about potential near-term gyrations in the stock market, was sharply higher Tuesday, up 3.8%, or 0.62 point, at 17.63.

    Credit Worries Make Comeback 2008

  • MarketWatch - Think you can time the stock market's shorter-term gyrations?

    MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2011

  • But they do suggest that it is unrealistic to catch the market's short-term gyrations, even ones as momentous as the one three years ago this month.

    MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2011

  • But he says they've grown used to bad economic news and are unfazed by the stock market's short-term gyrations.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By PAUL WISEMAN 2011

  • But he says they've grown used to bad economic news and are unfazed by the stock market's short-term gyrations.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • Although it's impossible to protect your portfolio fully from the market's short-term gyrations, selling your holdings when fear and panic rules the ticker is a sure-fire way to lose money.

    unknown title 2011

  • But he says they've grown used to bad economic news and are unfazed by the stock market's short-term gyrations.

    unknown title 2011

  • But he says they've grown used to bad economic news and are unfazed by the stock market's short-term gyrations.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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