pendulum

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After that, the pendulum may swing Norrie's way, as Draper had impressive results during last year's European clay-court swing, including a run to the Madrid final and the quarter-finals in Rome.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

The story of the labor market, which can sometimes resemble a pendulum, is more complicated.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

“We are witnessing a massive pendulum swing of one type of ignorance to another,” Barbieri said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

We can think of climate change as a pendulum: as it intensifies, it swings from one extreme to another, hot and cold and dry and wet.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026

The pendulum swings on and on in the old grandfather clock.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr