saltatory

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saltatory
Adjective
  • Similar to his advice on Caterpillar, Cramer has in recent days been recommending investors not making any sudden movements with their portfolios because there’s so much uncertainty.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
  • While the stock market recovered over the next two years, the sudden crash prompted the New York Stock Exchange to introduce circuit breakers—temporary halts in trading intended to calm markets and prevent panic selling—which kick in when stock prices fall too sharply, too fast.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Current law, however, is discontinuous.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The fossil record is discontinuous at the Atapuerca site and in Western Europe as a whole, indicating that there were likely long periods without human presence.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Loading your audio article OAKLAND — Less than a year after Alameda County agreed to his release from prison in an abrupt turnabout, a local resident has been charged with nine felonies in connection with a recent shooting.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • As a result, a conclusion that seems like it’s supposed to be shocking lands as a glib, abrupt cop-out.
    Judy Berman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • No one living close to the plant, or anyone working inside it, had died from acute radiation syndrome.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Researchers from Dartmouth College built the bot as a way of taking a new approach to a longstanding problem: The U.S. continues to grapple with an acute shortage of mental health providers.
    Katia Riddle, NPR, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Saltatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saltatory. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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