oscillate
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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
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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
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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
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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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