pendulum
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Gosling believes parenting trends often represent a pendulum swing, with one generation trying to correct what it believes the previous one got wrong.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
After a few years in which mainstream culture at least made noises about retiring the worst excesses of early-aughts thinspo, the pendulum appears to be swinging back.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Canada’s history is a pendulum of violent rejection, reluctant acceptance, begrudging condescension and resigned cohabitation with America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They can be compared with a pendulum, whose position and momentum change continuously.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
The stage under the Headmarvellers swung left and right like a great pendulum.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Traditional clocks, from pendulums to atomic oscillators, depend on irreversible processes to track time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
But pendulums swing and many workers are ready for a change.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Dr. King has been studying elephants’ fear of bees since 2006 and applied what she learned to create specialized wire fences upon which beehives hang like pendulums.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
What he failed to mention is that the handshake would occur 60 feet off the ground as both actors hung on ropes like pendulums colliding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
The shop was round, its walls covered in a plethora of weights and pendulums and cogs and gears, all trimmed in buttered brass.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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