pendulum

Example Sentences

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The story of the labor market, which can sometimes resemble a pendulum, is more complicated.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

"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 • Feb. 14, 2026

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 • Jan. 30, 2026

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 • Jan. 27, 2026

But what Marie-Laure remembered, standing at the rail as it whistled past, was her father saying that Foucault’s pendulum would never stop.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr