pendulum

Example Sentences

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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

There’s only one way for the pendulum to swing: back toward adulthood, or what our therapist contributor calls proper psychological distance.

From The Wall Street Journal

The housing policy pendulum has swung from favoring actions to reduce housing costs by spurring supply to those favoring demand, says Rick Palacios, Jr., the director of research at John Burns Research and Consulting.

From Barron's

But eventually the current wave loses its potency, the pendulum swings to the next outsiders, and the vicious circle folds into itself like an Escher painting.

From The Wall Street Journal

And since he’ll turn 27 before the Milano Cortina Olympic Games open in February, he may not be able to wait for the pendulum to swing back to have another chance at being an Olympian.

From Los Angeles Times