vacillate
Example Sentences
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You have to see it so many times because you have to vacillate between watching the show and watching the audience.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 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
The film embraces the idea that identity is dynamic and can vacillate wildly over time.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2022
The Obayifo’s shifty eyes vacillate between me and Ama.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing vacillate
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