oscillate

The waves could have gotten the vessel to oscillate back and forth, Sharpe said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 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

“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

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

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

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

The Korean won has oscillated between a sharp appreciation in the first half of last year and then a deep depreciation in the second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

The sudden dip in air quality levels since Saturday came after the capital had shown some improvement over the past week - when it oscillated between "poor" and "very poor".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

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 Selic policy rate is 13.5% with inflation oscillating around 4.5%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

This theory, like Huygens’s theory of oscillating systems, grew out of a piece of practical work connected with astronomy.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin