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
Zoph’s firing and decision to rejoin OpenAI with colleagues also marks a pendulum swing for a company that Murati, that startup’s former technology chief, had founded with 20 former OpenAI employees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Charles awakened on the stroke of four-thirty as surely as though the brass pendulum of the clock had nudged him.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing pendulum
Unit 1: Telling Details
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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