pendulum

Example Sentences

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The story of the labor market, which can sometimes resemble a pendulum, is more complicated.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

"What was unusual was the near absence of engagement during Hasina's tenure. The pendulum had swung too far in one direction; now it risks swinging too far in the other."

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

“We are witnessing a massive pendulum swing of one type of ignorance to another,” Barbieri said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

We can think of climate change as a pendulum: as it intensifies, it swings from one extreme to another, hot and cold and dry and wet.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026

Backwards and forwards went the swaying crowd, keeping time together, swinging like the pendulum of a clock.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers