vacillate
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His commanding presence and ability to vacillate between one-liners and earnest remarks also reminded me a lot of the way Rivers conducted himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2024
His leadership skills were lackluster, he was not a charismatic or inspiring speaker, he tended to vacillate in decision-making and he struggled to retain the best staffers.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2022
We are a nation traumatized into forgetting, psyches so pulverized by mass death that we vacillate wildly between rage and numbness—waiting until the cycle begins again, so frequent it masquerades as normalcy.
From Slate • May 25, 2022
Fuhrman, who was 12 when Orphan premiered, was lauded for her ability to vacillate between Esther’s precocious ersatz child and deranged killer modes.
From The Verge • Jan. 26, 2022
I did not dwell on the situation at Fort Hare, but life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing vacillate
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Long Walk to Freedom
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