pendulum
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After a few years in which mainstream culture at least made noises about retiring the worst excesses of early-aughts thinspo, the pendulum appears to be swinging back.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
"I like the pendulum to swing. Whether it's extreme joy or extreme pain, I like to feel the experience of life."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
They can be compared with a pendulum, whose position and momentum change continuously.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Health and wellness influencers have swung the pendulum in the other direction, but that is not the answer either.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
The new science knew no boundaries of language or nationality, at least not within western Europe, within the world of the printing press, gunpowder weaponry, the telescope and the pendulum clock.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Traditional clocks, from pendulums to atomic oscillators, depend on irreversible processes to track time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
Recognizing this new reality, Boric called on those who won the election Sunday to “not make the same mistake we did … in believing that pendulums are permanent.”
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2023
Dr. King has been studying elephants’ fear of bees since 2006 and applied what she learned to create specialized wire fences upon which beehives hang like pendulums.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
What he failed to mention is that the handshake would occur 60 feet off the ground as both actors hung on ropes like pendulums colliding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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