pendulum

Example Sentences

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Levy: I always like to pull the pendulum back as far as possible.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

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

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

The pendulum would swing towards the dominant MCO partner in Chelsea.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 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

Based on the laws of physics, if our pendulum was placed in a vacuum, it would never stop swinging, back and forth, back and forth.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller