oscillate

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

Conditions oscillate between El Nino and its opposite La Nina, with neutral conditions in between.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Thus, governments oscillate between ignoring developments that are moving too fast to process and aggressively intervening when scary risks appear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

“It’s been kind of a sideways-driven market that is continuing to oscillate between good economic data and bad jobs data.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 5, 2026

It would oscillate through the earth and back, until eventually it settled down at the center.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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

No team in English soccer oscillates faster between a romp to certain glory and imminent collapse than Arsenal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

At the core of the film is the undeniable chemistry between Pitt and Clooney, which oscillates between camaraderie and competition.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

If the universe truly oscillates, still stranger questions arise.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Aside from early in the war, when Mr. Trump oscillated between regime change and a Venezuelan-style renovation, he has sought a diplomatic ending to the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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

Culturally, hyper-machismo has oscillated from cool to lame to ironically cool and back again for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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

He oscillated hourly between anguish and exhilaration, multiplying fantastically the grandeur of his victories and exaggerating tragically the seriousness of his defeats.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The debate about AI and jobs has become exhausting and largely unproductive, oscillating between “AI will take all jobs” and “AI will create more jobs than it destroys.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Many physical systems behave like tiny oscillating objects, similar to springs or pendulums.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2026

"Financial markets are oscillating in a narrow, uneasy range as traders sized up the countdown to Donald Trump's Iran deadline," wrote Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Like many recent theater school grads, Dela Cruz was still trying to find his niche as a performer, oscillating between the pursuits of ethnic ambiguity — a casting asset — and cultural identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

The technical challenge was right up his alley: it involved the electromagnetic focusing of a stream of charged particles and its synchronization with an oscillating electric current—in other words, the basic elements of the cyclotron.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik