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tee ter

  • n  a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
  • v  move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

  • As banks across the world teeter amid the market meltdown, Americans and Europeans watch their governments intervene to stave off catastrophe.
  • The heroes try to keep their equilibrium while dodging flame darts from Yam; they use burning sticks as swords; they balance one pole on another, like a teeter-totter, and swivel .
  • Postwar Austria is a political teeter-totter balanced precariously and almost exactly between two parties: the leftist Socialists (73 seats) and the conservative Catholic People's .
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  • Phil Jackson in Boston Globe
    Well, I kind of anticipated this was going to be a back-and-forth series like this,he said. "I said this the other day, it's a lot of teeter-totter here, despair and elation, but we're going to try and establish the fact that we're going...
  • Richard Fulton in International Herald Tribune
    The state is really on a teeter-totter,said Richard Fulton, a political science professor at Northwest Missouri State University. "We've been a state that has been swinging back and forth between Democrats and Republicans at the statewide...
  • Cynthia Nixon in Jamaica Gleaner
    Nixon added: "The first day back on set was wild! We were back in these outfits and these heels again. We had to relearn how to walk down the street in unison and not teeter over in our heels, but it kind of felt great. What it felt like was a...

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