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  • verb Present participle of yoyo.

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Examples

  • I can't focus, and I've been yoyoing between to depressed to move and my thoughts won't slow down enough for me to work.

    walkercayce Diary Entry walkercayce 2009

  • Instinctively Nicholas held his breath as he watched it come the parachute hurtling down and then jerk up short on shrouds. it swayed wildly all over the sky, yoyoing on the nylon ropes, and the monks howled with amazement and excitement as they watched it drop in. it struck in a cloud of dust.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • It could help you find a diet that suits your body, helps you lose weight naturally and without yoyoing.

    unknown title 2009

  • Google has been yoyoing search results lately with webmasters reporting huge fluctuations in their rankings.

    Search Engine Roundtable 2009

  • Google has been yoyoing search results lately with webmasters reporting huge fluctuations in their rankings.

    Search Engine Roundtable 2009

  • As soon as it did, he picked up his head and I hit him again, a hard right to his face, and then I bounced back and forth three or four times, trying to mix him up, like a basketball player yoyoing up and down so the defender has no idea when he’s actually going to shoot, watching his eyes to see when he was totally lost…

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • As soon as it did, he picked up his head and I hit him again, a hard right to his face, and then I bounced back and forth three or four times, trying to mix him up, like a basketball player yoyoing up and down so the defender has no idea when he’s actually going to shoot, watching his eyes to see when he was totally lost…

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • As soon as it did, he picked up his head and I hit him again, a hard right to his face, and then I bounced back and forth three or four times, trying to mix him up, like a basketball player yoyoing up and down so the defender has no idea when he’s actually going to shoot, watching his eyes to see when he was totally lost…

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

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