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oscillate

[os-uh-leyt] / ˈɒs əˌleɪt /


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Conditions oscillate between El Nino and its opposite La Nina, with neutral conditions in between.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Thus, governments oscillate between ignoring developments that are moving too fast to process and aggressively intervening when scary risks appear.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

If neutrinos and antineutrinos oscillate differently, that difference could point to why matter ultimately prevailed.

From Science Daily Mar. 3, 2026

“It’s been kind of a sideways-driven market that is continuing to oscillate between good economic data and bad jobs data.”

From MarketWatch Feb. 5, 2026

Would it oscillate back and forth until it came to rest?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Meanwhile, Brolin’s Bangley oscillates in personality from miserable bastard to laugh factory.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

The Relative Strength Index, which oscillates between zero and 100, is a widely followed underlying technical indicator that measures the magnitude of recent gains against the magnitude of recent losses.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

No team in English soccer oscillates faster between a romp to certain glory and imminent collapse than Arsenal.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 2026

At the core of the film is the undeniable chemistry between Pitt and Clooney, which oscillates between camaraderie and competition.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2024

It oscillates up and down faster and faster as it approaches the singularity, whipping from positive to negative and back again.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Its overall light field oscillated in the same direction, even though it contained photons of different colors traveling along many different paths.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

Culturally, hyper-machismo has oscillated from cool to lame to ironically cool and back again for decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

Even though the stock-bond correlation has oscillated widely over the years, this ratio has remained remarkably constant — as you can see from the chart above.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 2026

The Korean won has oscillated between a sharp appreciation in the first half of last year and then a deep depreciation in the second.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

As I turned away to continue walking up the trail, my emotions oscillated between nervous anticipation and a nearly overwhelming sense of dread.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The debate about AI and jobs has become exhausting and largely unproductive, oscillating between “AI will take all jobs” and “AI will create more jobs than it destroys.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

"Financial markets are oscillating in a narrow, uneasy range as traders sized up the countdown to Donald Trump's Iran deadline," wrote Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management.

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

Inconsequential wins and losses spread out for hours on end, my money gently oscillating with the tide.

From Slate Nov. 18, 2025

While this study focused on plasmons, the new chip-scale THz spectroscope could detect other types of quasiparticles oscillating in many different 2D materials.

From Science Daily Oct. 21, 2025

Scientists wonder about what happens in an oscillating universe at the cusps, at the transition from contraction to expansion.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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