vacillating

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Oppenheimer modulates the lighting during the scenes from cool to warm and back again, underlining the vacillating feelings they can’t acknowledge outright.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2024

After a wildly vacillating game against Marquette in which the Bruins’ 12-point lead became a seven-point deficit, they had the ball trailing by two with 21 seconds left.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

But Cohen also said he was “compelled to comment upon the vacillating positions of the City of Atlanta throughout this litigation.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023

They're constantly in a state of vacillating between reality and the "What if?" and the sense of guilt, which keeps them in rumination.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2023

Three overlapping reasons appear to have converged in Adams’s mind and provided decisive direction to a foreign policy that, until then, had been vacillating between the incompatible agendas of the Federalists and the Republicans.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis