oscillate
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“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
Conditions oscillate between El Nino and its opposite La Nina, with neutral conditions in between.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Would it oscillate back and forth until it came to rest?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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“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
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
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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
I’ve oscillated wildly between thinking the U.S. will ride a host-nation bump to the semis and worrying they’ll be humiliated by Paraguay and soccer in this country will be canceled forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
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
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When did it become clear that a Kayla/Jimmy scene has its own oscillating frequency?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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
"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
The microscope allowed them to observe a frictionless flow of electrons behaving like a "superfluid," moving together and oscillating at terahertz frequencies within the material.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 17, 2026
The oscillating fan on the wall made the papers on the employee bulletin board flutter.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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