pendulum

Example Sentences

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"What was unusual was the near absence of engagement during Hasina's tenure. The pendulum had swung too far in one direction; now it risks swinging too far in the other."

From BBC

“We are witnessing a massive pendulum swing of one type of ignorance to another,” Barbieri said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Danny let the pendulum fall and it spun and spun and spun.

From Literature

We can think of climate change as a pendulum: as it intensifies, it swings from one extreme to another, hot and cold and dry and wet.

From Salon

There’s only one way for the pendulum to swing: back toward adulthood, or what our therapist contributor calls proper psychological distance.

From The Wall Street Journal