oscillate
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“People oscillate between euphoria, depression, anger and hatred,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
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Meanwhile, Brolin’s Bangley oscillates in personality from miserable bastard to laugh factory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Relative Strength Index, which oscillates between zero and 100, is a widely followed underlying technical indicator that measures the magnitude of recent gains against the magnitude of recent losses.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 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
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
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
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
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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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
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
Ahead, a gigantic big top floated on the water with its three rings and high tightrope oscillating.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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