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pendulum

[pen-juh-luhm, pen-duh-] / ˈpɛn dʒə ləm, ˈpɛn də- /




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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 pendulum is bound to swing the other way, despite the Stones’s insistence that there is “no turning back.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

But the pendulum swung and we’re back to days of “Driving Miss Daisy” denial.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

With every blow Kuba swung back and forth like the pendulum of a grandfather clock.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

This process resembles several pendulums gradually swinging together at the same frequency.

From Science Daily Oct. 24, 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

Using tarot, scrying, pendulums, runes and other forms of intuitive counseling, Amanda Yates Garcia, known as the Oracle of L.A., offers clarity through elemental divination sessions.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2022

As snowboarders turn themselves into human pendulums in the halfpipe event at the Winter Olympics, they will be flying high and long.

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2022

Then Mrs. de Roo got out her Metro Gnome: Metro Gnomes’re upside-down pendulums without the clock part.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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