How to Use balancing act in a Sentence

balancing act

noun
  • In the best of times, doing no harm is a delicate balancing act.
    Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But setting a species loose in the wild is a precarious balancing act.
    Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Starting Over is a delicate balancing act on many fronts.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2021
  • CEOs were forced to raise prices in a balancing act between cost recovery and customer value.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Wide receivers coach Cornelius Williams’s first season at Auburn is going to be a balancing act.
    Giana Han, al, 6 Apr. 2021
  • There is a balancing act between the economic concerns of companies and their employees and the threat to public health.
    Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Monday’s festivities proved to be a difficult balancing act of emotions for all parties involved.
    Alec White, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2021
  • For these students, the pandemic upset an already difficult balancing act, leaving many just plain exhausted.
    Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Eradicating fleas from the home is a balancing act between effectiveness and personal safety.
    Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2021
  • As Kerr has admitted on multiple occasions, that balancing act has brought a considerable learning curve.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Korolev performed this balancing act brilliantly, piggybacking off a military program to pursue his dream of space travel.
    Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Over the course of a few hours Tuesday, President Joe Biden's difficult balancing act on policing was put on vivid display.
    Jonathan Lemire, Star Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Cybersecurity is a balancing act between protection and cost.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The Mets have quite the balancing act to pull off this week.
    Abbey Mastracco, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2022
  • That was the main balancing act, both during the shoot and in the editing room.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The host with the most was born Oct. 8 (and has a serious balancing act with his kids!).
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Gone are the days of doing a balancing act with a strainer and pot.
    cleveland, 29 June 2022
  • The first three weeks of the season has been a balancing act for Pete DeBoer and the Stars.
    Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • For months, the practice has felt like a balancing act.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
  • There’s this balancing act of being tied to a place and a people with that sort of past.
    Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
  • This dressing is a balancing act of bright, salty and creamy.
    Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • But the balancing act does not always come easy for the rapper.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 13 July 2022
  • But it’s been a balancing act for the Stars in striking the right chord on a nightly basis.
    Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Older age can be a balancing act — how much to put out, how hard to try, how much to let go.
    Anne Lamott, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • Here, Branagh attempts to balance both, and its in that balancing act that the film misses the mark.
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The problem: The Fed has rarely nailed that balancing act before.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • With Jimmy, that is the balancing act, with so much of his game played in attack mode.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • That’s quite the balancing act from Brunson and her team of writers.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • What is the balancing act of getting those guys reps in practice?
    oregonlive, 28 July 2021
  • So that's that balancing act that Democrats are going to have going into the convention as well, Margaret.
    CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024

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