pendulum

A run of 11 consecutive breaks of serve swung the momentum like a pendulum but it was Gauff who finally held serve in game seven of the second set en route to an 82-minute victory.

“I’ve had people walk out of the room and swear there was a magnet in the pendulum board,” he says.

The question in 2026 will be whether the civic pendulum has shifted and if the phrase “veteran politician” still doubles as an effective slur.

But the pendulum in California has shifted away from tough-on-truancy measures to alternatives such as counseling and family assistance.

"But to swing the pendulum so far that mRNA is useless and has no value and should not be developed or understood better is equally stupid, it did do remarkable things," he says.