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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

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

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

From MarketWatch Mar. 6, 2026

As the next round of talks approaches, the public oscillates between faint hopes for diplomacy and an acute awareness that events far beyond their control may reshape their future overnight.

From BBC Feb. 27, 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

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

The same feeling creeps into me now as the vessel oscillates under me.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

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 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

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

"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

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

From Slate Nov. 18, 2025

He tugged on Jam’s hand, then let it go, his head oscillating between her and Pet.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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