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whiplash
/ˈwɪpˌlæʃ/
noun 3verb 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
pandemic
VERB + WHIPLASH
cause, receiving, suffered, talked
WHIPLASH + NOUN
confusion, injury, months
PREP.
about, about, after, in, with
ADV.
often, often
Definitions
noun
1
The lash of a whip.
2
An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.
3
An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock.
Some parents, feeling too hurt by the push-off or taking their teenager’s rejections too personally, choose to make themselves unavailable. In some ways it does feel better to avoid episodes of emotional whiplash.
A week of public health reversals from the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has left Americans with pandemic whiplash, sowing confusion about coronavirus vaccines and mask-wearing as the Delta variant upends what people thought they knew about how to stay safe.
verb
1
To jerk back and forth; to buffet.
[…] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.
2
To lash as if with a whip.
After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.
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Some parents, feeling too hurt by the push-off or taking their teenager’s rejections too personally, choose to make themselves unavailable. In some ways it does feel better to avoid episodes of emotio
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A week of public health reversals from the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has left Americans with pandemic whiplash, sowing confusion about coronavirus vaccines and mas
Wiktionary03
And he talked about the “whiplash” he often feels when it comes to A.I. these days, as some people urge companies like Google to move faster on A.I., release more products and take bigger risks, while
Wiktionary04
[…] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.
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After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.
Wiktionary06
I had a whiplash injury two months ago.
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