teeter

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"It's almost like a teeter-totter right now," said Alan Lancz, money manager at Alan B. Lancz & Associates.

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  1. intransitive verb To walk or move unsteadily or unsurely; totter.
  2. intransitive verb To alternate, as between opposing attitudes or positions; vacillate.
  3. intransitive verb To seesaw.

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teeter:   teetered ·  teetering
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  1. Middle English titeren, probably from Old Norse titra, to shake.

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  1. A dial. variant of titter.
  2. from teeter, v.
 

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/ˈtitər/
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