oscillate
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He seems to oscillate between a collaborative and combative view.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
“People oscillate between euphoria, depression, anger and hatred,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The researchers could also change the direction of that current by rotating the polarization of the two optical fields, which describes the direction in which the light waves oscillate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The waves could have gotten the vessel to oscillate back and forth, Sharpe said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Would it oscillate back and forth until it came to rest?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Light also has a property known as polarization, which describes how its electric field oscillates.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Meanwhile, Brolin’s Bangley oscillates in personality from miserable bastard to laugh factory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
RSI, which oscillates between 10 and 100, tends to rise when prices rise.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026
The narrative oscillates between a journalistic view of the band’s history and something of an insider’s account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Good writing can flip the way the world is perceived, like the silhouette in psychology textbooks which oscillates between a goblet and two faces.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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International oil prices have oscillated under $90 a barrel in recent days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Its overall light field oscillated in the same direction, even though it contained photons of different colors traveling along many different paths.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Even though the stock-bond correlation has oscillated widely over the years, this ratio has remained remarkably constant — as you can see from the chart above.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
Since then, the president has oscillated between saying the US has already won the war and that the military campaign will continue for a number of weeks, usually ranging between two and six.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
The only sound was the fan, clicking each time it oscillated across the room.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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Firms’ early websites were perfunctory hubs of partner and contact information, and seldom updated to move with the oscillating trends of the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
While Johnson’s elasticity as a performer is a bit more contentious, I’ve always found her choices fascinating — oscillating between rom-coms, superhero films and arthouse horror with the bat of a mascara’d eye.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Selic policy rate is 13.5% with inflation oscillating around 4.5%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Many physical systems behave like tiny oscillating objects, similar to springs or pendulums.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026
Scientists wonder about what happens in an oscillating universe at the cusps, at the transition from contraction to expansion.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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