oscillate

Example Sentences

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Expectations about the Federal Reserve’s next policy meeting oscillated sharply this past week, with a quarter-point cut in the federal-funds target rate once again being the odds-on bet.

From Barron's

Expectations about the Federal Reserve’s next policy meeting oscillated sharply this past week, with a quarter-point cut in the federal-funds target rate once again being the odds-on bet.

From Barron's

Its trapezoidal steel blade-head slightly oscillates back and forth — a simple push or pull slices the top layer of soil, severing a weed from its roots.

From New York Times

This variation should cause the balance to oscillate at regular intervals, like a seesaw with two children sitting on it.

From Scientific American

It is easier to describe light as rotating complex electric and magnetic fields than as oscillating real ones, despite the fact that there is no such thing as an imaginary electric field.

From Scientific American