How to Use balancing act in a Sentence

balancing act

noun
  • The vast Antarctic ice sheet is held together through a precarious balancing act.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
  • And as doctors have learned in Chicago, matching vaccines with eligible patients can be a balancing act.
    Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Afterward, Van Gundy was asked about the balancing act of trying to win now versus developing young talent.
    Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The handling of Greene and Cheney presented a tricky balancing act for McCarthy.
    Alan Fram, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2021
  • When the leaves turn and temperatures drop, my fall and early winter air travel style in the skies becomes a balancing act between comfort, coziness, and looking sharp.
    Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The state of the pandemic has created a delicate balancing act for the White House’s public health messaging.
    Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Trying to predict the impact of a child allowance decades into the future is always going to be a balancing act of ambiguity and speculation.
    Oshan Jarow, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The big picture: Harris's new capital gains and small business proposals are part of the campaign's delicate balancing act on the economy.
    Hans Nichols, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The Federal Reserve’s job was seen as a balancing act: Too low a money supply would slow spending, and too much would erode purchasing power.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Yet the balancing act of building upon the game’s ultimate achievement while transitioning to a new era begins almost immediately.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The talks represent a potentially delicate balancing act for Netflix.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The Mets have quite the balancing act to pull off this week.
    Abbey Mastracco, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2022
  • That was the main balancing act, both during the shoot and in the editing room.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The host with the most was born Oct. 8 (and has a serious balancing act with his kids!).
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Gone are the days of doing a balancing act with a strainer and pot.
    cleveland, 29 June 2022
  • The first three weeks of the season has been a balancing act for Pete DeBoer and the Stars.
    Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • For months, the practice has felt like a balancing act.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
  • There’s this balancing act of being tied to a place and a people with that sort of past.
    Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
  • This dressing is a balancing act of bright, salty and creamy.
    Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • But the balancing act does not always come easy for the rapper.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 13 July 2022
  • But it’s been a balancing act for the Stars in striking the right chord on a nightly basis.
    Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Older age can be a balancing act — how much to put out, how hard to try, how much to let go.
    Anne Lamott, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • Here, Branagh attempts to balance both, and its in that balancing act that the film misses the mark.
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The problem: The Fed has rarely nailed that balancing act before.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • With Jimmy, that is the balancing act, with so much of his game played in attack mode.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • That’s quite the balancing act from Brunson and her team of writers.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • What is the balancing act of getting those guys reps in practice?
    oregonlive, 28 July 2021
  • But overall the balancing act leaves the boundaries largely the same.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • But that's a tricky balancing act, as the pandemic has shown.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Everything in life is a trade-off, and a balancing act.
    Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023

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