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oscillate

[os-uh-leyt] / ˈɒs əˌleɪt /


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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

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

From Barron's Mar. 23, 2026

The combined findings suggest there may be a difference in how neutrinos and antineutrinos oscillate, indicating a possible violation of CP symmetry.

From Science Daily Mar. 3, 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

Would it oscillate back and forth until it came to rest?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“Space-time doesn’t just curve and expand; it also twists, oscillates, and sucks. Go outside on a cloudless night, and outer space will start sucking the heat right out of you.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

RSI, which oscillates between 10 and 100, tends to rise when prices rise.

From MarketWatch Mar. 6, 2026

Then in 2020, Gaia uncovered that this warped disc slowly oscillates over time, similar to the motion of a spinning top.

From Science Daily Oct. 22, 2025

In a cavity’s lowest mode, the radio waves’ electric field oscillates uniformly up and down along the cavity axis.

From Science Magazine Nov. 20, 2024

It oscillates up and down faster and faster as it approaches the singularity, whipping from positive to negative and back again.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Throughout its history, Pakistan has oscillated from more civilian autonomy to overt control under military leaders like General Pervez Musharraf and General Zia-ul-Haq.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2025

His rebellious spirit made him violate all the taboos and consequently he always oscillated between moods of intense elation and depression.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

"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

Inconsequential wins and losses spread out for hours on end, my money gently oscillating with the tide.

From Slate Nov. 18, 2025

While this study focused on plasmons, the new chip-scale THz spectroscope could detect other types of quasiparticles oscillating in many different 2D materials.

From Science Daily Oct. 21, 2025

Each wave would be oscillating back and forth between the state on the right and the one on the left.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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