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September 14, 2007

Juggle

juggle (verb) -
a. continually throwing balls into the air, catching, throwing,...
b. shifting from one task to another, trying to fit them all into limited time

juggling time and committments
a juggling act
juggling a hectic schedule
juggling with the scheduling
juggling with fire
juggling different roles
juggling home and work life
juggling kids and work
juggling questions
juggling committments
constant juggling
requires constant juggling
financial juggling
juggled x with y
juggling their home and family
With a little juggling I managed to x


Example sentences:

* She juggled potatoes as she cooked to make her two little daughters laugh.

* She juggled a high power job as a partner in a leading law firm with raising her four kids.

* We desperately need some kind of financial juggling if we are going to atttract investment with this prospectus.

* Its hallmark of the country was a Machiavellian juggling with army cliques, revolving mainly around the role of Idi Amin rival claimants to the position of head of the army.

* In 9 cases out of 10, the sheik estimated, juggling a visitor's questions with the demands of an constantly ringing phone, he had persuaded young Saudis to set aside their dreams of Jihad.

* Keeping the firm afloat and operating requires constant financial juggling.

* Then the real juggling act begins, job, children, house and husband. (Source: Wikipedia)

* The football player juggled the ball around a bit and then kicked the ball into the goal.

* Men, in general, seem to face less of a problem juggling their home and family with their professional committments.

* With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment working right with lilac, shading to blue then to a yellowish pink. (Source: British National Corpus)

* Anything thing you want, I got it: magic tricks, cards, juggling, knife-throwing, you name it...

* Juggling these different opportunities and commitments means that life is varied and full. (Source: British National Corpus)

* So many people were out sick with the flue, that I had a bit of juggling to do, moving people around so that every classroom had a teacher.

* She works full time, juggling her career with raising two small children. (Source: British National Corpus)

* Performing the juggling act needed to reconcile family and employment obligations does however present many difficulties for women. (Source: British National Corpus)



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