How to Use whipsaw in a Sentence

whipsaw

1 of 2 noun
  • The Iran war is driving a whipsaw all its own.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The whipsaw between the two leaves a mark, even after the stage or set is abandoned.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, there have been plenty of whipsaws since its strong uptrend ended at the start of the year.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 17 June 2026
  • The asset’s whipsaw ride over the past six months has caused some investors to doubt the value of trading it.
    — Bloomberg.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The price action can be volatile and produce whipsaws, but the general structure is clear.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 27 May 2026
  • Wall Street stocks wavered following days of whipsaw moves, while oil prices rallied.
    — James Willhite, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • For hospitals and health systems, the past two years of Covid-19 have seen a whipsaw of crises.
    — Dwight Raum, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • Her campaign mirrored her whipsaw career.
    — ABC News, 10 June 2026
  • The whipsaw crest of the Rocky Mountains is visible from a hundred miles away.
    — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
  • The threat of such moves can provoke price swings, whipsaw capital flows and fuel volatility.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2015
  • The whipsaw of weather and market forces make for long seasons of uncertainty.
    — Autumn Schoolman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The president himself has been prone to such language at times, creating a whipsaw effect.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Reversals in this channel of stocks often lead to erratic whipsaws.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • The war in Iran is once again the dominant market force today, with whipsaw trade in Asia across stocks and oil prices.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • Our yearly fluctuations are dramatic, and even an average year feels like a bit of a whipsaw.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • So yes, the effect was a rapid whipsaw effect of the recommendations, but the basis was still science.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2020
  • The whipsaw itself has existed for several years.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • At the same time, inflation dynamics are undergoing their own regime change whipsaw.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • One described the effect as a whipsaw, saying the company and union would try to convince workers to accept a bad deal or see jobs shipped away.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Another week of whipsaw stock trading has many investors wondering how much farther markets will fall.
    — Akane Otani, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • Investors are about to buy billions of dollars in mainland Chinese stocks even as trade tensions whipsaw markets.
    — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 16 May 2019
  • The whipsaw action came just one day after a historic rout that saw the blue-chip index drop by 2,013 points, the most ever.
    — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The whipsaw action has been evident beyond the biggest internet firms.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • This year’s winter whipsaw triggered the latest in a string of painful crop losses that have hit Georgia’s most profitable fruit crops in recent years.
    — Drew Kann The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Then came some whipsaw downbeat news stories suggesting that the comet was fizzling and might have already begun to disintegrate.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2013
  • Power and advantage whipsaw from one side to the other over the coming episodes, and everyone’s loyalties are tested.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2021
  • When the history of American hardship is written in some distant decade, two recent events may capture the whipsaw forces of the age.
    — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The Angry Birds Movie 2 A tonal whipsaw that doesn’t have conviction to invest in its own premise.
    — SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The gains came after the latest whipsaw moves for oil prices, which surged toward their highest levels since the war with Iran began only to quickly regress.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The president’s rhetorical whipsaw came against the backdrop of tense but cordial meetings in Biarritz.
    — Michael D. Shear, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2019

whipsaw

2 of 2 verb
  • Yes, your wallet has been whipsawed.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Markets have been whipsawed for months by the ups and downs in the dispute.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Fortunes have been made — and lost as that market has whipsawed.
    — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Oil prices have whipsawed as war in the Middle East came to a head this month.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • And they will be whipsawed and beaten by the process for anywhere from two to 12 years.
    — Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
  • Crude prices whipsawed in volatile trading on Monday.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
  • From week to week, narratives whipsaw.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • Trump has encouraged his fans to support the app as its parent stock has whipsawed.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The lead whipsawed back and forth, with neither team able to get much separation.
    — Eric Moreno, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Financial markets have whipsawed this week as traders struggle to price in the risk of the outbreak.
    — Amy Gunia, Time, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Investors will focus on the yen, which gained the past four weeks as fears over the health of an array of lenders whipsawed markets.
    — Ye Xie, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Stock markets have been volatile this summer as traders have been whipsawed by the turns in the trade war between the world's biggest economies.
    — Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The late hour minimized unrest in a country that has been whipsawed by antigovernment protests.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 31 July 2017
  • As stock prices whipsaw, some traders have increased their holdings of alternative assets like gold to hedge their bets.
    — Fortune, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The unrest comes as multiple crises have whipsawed the economy.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Biotech investors are in neck braces from being whipsawed back and forth as the industry’s focal length moves in and out every few years.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
  • Others warned that the sector is being whipsawed by politics from both parties.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The talks in the Austrian capital were the latest steps in a process that has whipsawed oil markets for weeks.
    — Wael Mahdi, Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2018
  • Girardi was asked about this psychic whipsawing at the postgame press conference.
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine and markets are whipsawing around as investors try to make sense of it all.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Within a half hour, the stock market had lost much of those gains, and continueed to whipsaw between gains and losses through the morning.
    — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Some of the big-name startups expected to go public early this year have slowed their rush to market as stocks continue to whipsaw.
    — Katie Roof, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The global pandemic has swung us from pessimism to optimism as we near the end of the long dark tunnel, only to whipsaw us back again.
    — John Pierce, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Trade tensions have whipsawed stocks over the past months as investors fret that any escalation could harm the global economy.
    — Janna Herron, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
  • Stocks whipsawed Friday, with the Dow swinging more than 800 points from its session high to its low.
    — Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value has whipsawed in price and struggled to regain ground amid a series of sell-offs.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps no city has been whipsawed by changing attitudes on crime as much as San Francisco.
    — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Many are concerned that they will get whipsawed as different White Houses pull in and out of such global agreements.
    — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • Markets have whipsawed on geopolitical signals, turning on any signs of progress or intensity of the war.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In recent months, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value has whipsawed in price and struggled to regain ground amid a series of sell-offs.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026

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