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oscillate

[os-uh-layt] / ˈɒs əˌleɪt /


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“People oscillate between euphoria, depression, anger and hatred,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The waves could have gotten the vessel to oscillate back and forth, Sharpe said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Conditions oscillate between La Nina and its warming opposite El Nino, with neutral conditions in between.

From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 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

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

At the core of the film is the undeniable chemistry between Pitt and Clooney, which oscillates between camaraderie and competition.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

It oscillates up and down faster and faster as it approaches the singularity, whipping from positive to negative and back again.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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

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

The sudden dip in air quality levels since Saturday came after the capital had shown some improvement over the past week - when it oscillated between "poor" and "very poor".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

His rebellious spirit made him violate all the taboos and consequently he always oscillated between moods of intense elation and depression.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

While Johnson’s elasticity as a performer is a bit more contentious, I’ve always found her choices fascinating — oscillating between rom-coms, superhero films and arthouse horror with the bat of a mascara’d eye.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Selic policy rate is 13.5% with inflation oscillating around 4.5%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Once the separation becomes larger, however, the individual time crystals no longer lock together and instead continue oscillating independently.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

When did it become clear that a Kayla/Jimmy scene has its own oscillating frequency?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Doctors came running up from every direction with needles, lights, tubes, rubber mallets and oscillating metal tines.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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