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oscillate

[os-uh-leyt] / ˈɒs əˌleɪt /


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“People oscillate between euphoria, depression, anger and hatred,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Conditions oscillate between El Nino and its opposite La Nina, with neutral conditions in between.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

The researchers observed signs of deep-strong light-matter coupling, a phenomenon in which electrons inside the silver nanoparticles oscillate in perfect synchrony with light waves and become quantum mechanically entangled.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

“It’s been kind of a sideways-driven market that is continuing to oscillate between good economic data and bad jobs data.”

From MarketWatch Feb. 5, 2026

It would oscillate through the earth and back, until eventually it settled down at the center.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

RSI, which oscillates between 10 and 100, tends to rise when prices rise.

From MarketWatch Mar. 6, 2026

The narrative oscillates between a journalistic view of the band’s history and something of an insider’s account.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

Then in 2020, Gaia uncovered that this warped disc slowly oscillates over time, similar to the motion of a spinning top.

From Science Daily Oct. 22, 2025

In a cavity’s lowest mode, the radio waves’ electric field oscillates uniformly up and down along the cavity axis.

From Science Magazine Nov. 20, 2024

The same feeling creeps into me now as the vessel oscillates under me.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Its overall light field oscillated in the same direction, even though it contained photons of different colors traveling along many different paths.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

Tech conglomerate SoftBank—a proxy for the AI trade—Advantest and Kioxia, to name a few, have oscillated sharply as market sentiment flits between euphoria over the technology’s long-term promise and pessimism over monetization and sky-high valuations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Culturally, hyper-machismo has oscillated from cool to lame to ironically cool and back again for decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

Even though the stock-bond correlation has oscillated widely over the years, this ratio has remained remarkably constant — as you can see from the chart above.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 2026

The only sound was the fan, clicking each time it oscillated across the room.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

The debate about AI and jobs has become exhausting and largely unproductive, oscillating between “AI will take all jobs” and “AI will create more jobs than it destroys.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

"Financial markets are oscillating in a narrow, uneasy range as traders sized up the countdown to Donald Trump's Iran deadline," wrote Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management.

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

They also carry oscillating energy from their initial excitation, which influences nearby electrons at adjustable frequencies.

From Science Daily Jan. 22, 2026

Clinging to the chassis of an airplane with the wind plastering his hair to his forehead and oscillating his gums like bulldog in a convertible, he is, in fact, exceedingly flapped.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2025

According to Edlefsen’s rudimentary ion detectors, something was going on inside the flask, but whether it was protons accelerating in resonance with an oscillating electric field was by no means clear.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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