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The lights sear and the actors caterwaul and jostle around the space, turning the play’s opening lines into a chaotic jazz riff, an evocation of the heat and hustle of summer in New Orleans.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
Beijing and Washington are currently jostling for influence in the vast Pacific, with the Chinese navy engaging in a show of force in the southern part of the ocean.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
One demonstrator jostled with a puppet whose name-tag identified it as Barnard President Laura Rosenbury.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
Its software acts like noise-canceling headphones, filtering out unwanted interference so delicate quantum sensors can remain accurate even when jostled at sea or in flight.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
Beijing and Washington are currently jostling for influence in the vast Pacific, with the Chinese navy engaging in a show of force in the southern part of the ocean.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
One demonstrator jostled with a puppet whose name-tag identified it as Barnard President Laura Rosenbury.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025
Its software acts like noise-canceling headphones, filtering out unwanted interference so delicate quantum sensors can remain accurate even when jostled at sea or in flight.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Jostle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jostle. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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