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vacillate

[vas-uh-leyt] / ˈvæs əˌleɪt /


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But Bruni easily could have been talking about Sacred Heart Hospital, whose staff vacillates between bridging the compassion gap between medical professionals and patients and managing our expectations.

From Salon

It is closer to music than epic, a mesmerizing suite of songs that conveys Tennyson’s private sorrow as he vacillates from unbearable agony to precarious hope.

From The Wall Street Journal

Washington has vacillated between pressing Europe to hit China with tariffs to cutting its own deals with Beijing.

From The Wall Street Journal

His yellow eyes vacillate between me and Autumn.

From Literature

Both sides have vacillated between tough talk and de-escalation in recent days, but the rhetoric took a harder turn on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal