vacillation
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The vacillation in Treasurys following the government’s pledge to suppress longer-duration yields have rattled stock investors, too.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
So the decision to do nothing about the deflation was not a case of ignorance or vacillation, as Mr. Ahamed contends, but of alignment with long-established monetary norms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
But it’s D’Angelo’s soaring vocals that transmute the molten instrumental throbbing into a transcendent buzz, achieved through multi-track vocal layers and a vacillation between climactic reverb roars and serene breaks.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025
It just captures this vacillation of the human experience so perfectly for me — like, I’m dancing, I’m driving in the dark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
To the last, however, we find vacillation, uncertainty, half measures, and, in large classes, a great apparent apathy.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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