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vacillating

adjective as in not resolute

adjective as in fluctuating

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The American people appear to be vacillating between learned helplessness and mass disinhibition.

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He attributed the vacillating accounts to Phillip’s plight as a witness who “saw his mother murdered before his very eyes” but still loved the killer.

Oppenheimer modulates the lighting during the scenes from cool to warm and back again, underlining the vacillating feelings they can’t acknowledge outright.

We are a country, and a world, chasing its tail – vacillating between hatred, anger and a desire for peace.

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Throwing in with the CRM never stopped her from vacillating back and forth between her identities: Jadis and Anne, Alexandria and the authoritarian military.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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