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Significados de see-saw en inglés

An apparatus composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, with seats at both end, used for a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

Uso de see-saw en inglés
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Both clubs blew leads before the second intermission in a see-saw affair.
Reuters
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The natural tendency otherwise is to make office-holding a sort of see-saw.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
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Such was my first experience of this see-saw warfare of the trenches.
Bullets & Billets
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The sonorous twang, the see-saw gestures, the odd pronunciation, were vividly depicted.
Roderick Hudson
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It's a see-saw with all of us, Theron Ware-sometimesup; sometimes down.
The Damnation of Theron Ware
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There is little wonder why this series was such a see-saw battle.
Jamaica Observer
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A see-saw plank, which would rebound when lowered, was laid across it.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
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Spending increases and tax cuts are not two sides of a see-saw.
The Irish Times
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I'm at the down end of the great see-saw, Sherbrooke, that's all.
The King's Highway
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Roger left the see-saw and climbed to the top of the board fence.
The Forbidden Trail
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One of the wonders of the Fair is the great see-saw.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 28...
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The first half was a see-saw up and down the field.
The Plastic Age
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The see-saw on Capitol Hill was reflected in the reactions of the markets.
The Guardian
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The consequence is that this place is a regular diplomatic see-saw.
The Double Traitor
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U.S. indexes ended little changed after a day of see-saw trade.
Reuters
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The pair ate, slept and answered calls of nature while on the see-saw.
BBC
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