pendulum
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“The pendulum has swung from the barefoot shoes to now having a marshmallow under your foot,” says Dennis, the Houston podiatrist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Gosling believes parenting trends often represent a pendulum swing, with one generation trying to correct what it believes the previous one got wrong.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
After a few years in which mainstream culture at least made noises about retiring the worst excesses of early-aughts thinspo, the pendulum appears to be swinging back.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
They can be compared with a pendulum, whose position and momentum change continuously.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
“Yes — first external contact,” he said, and Dr. 09-01, standing near the pendulum clock, noted the time.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Traditional clocks, from pendulums to atomic oscillators, depend on irreversible processes to track time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
But pendulums swing and many workers are ready for a change.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
What he failed to mention is that the handshake would occur 60 feet off the ground as both actors hung on ropes like pendulums colliding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
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
He worked fast to finish all three of the pendulums.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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