oscillate
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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
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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
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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
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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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