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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

“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

You talked about how women have to oscillate between trying to be likable and lovable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

It would oscillate through the earth and back, until eventually it settled down at the center.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

RSI, which oscillates between 10 and 100, tends to rise when prices rise.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

As the next round of talks approaches, the public oscillates between faint hopes for diplomacy and an acute awareness that events far beyond their control may reshape their future overnight.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

The narrative oscillates between a journalistic view of the band’s history and something of an insider’s account.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

In a cavity’s lowest mode, the radio waves’ electric field oscillates uniformly up and down along the cavity axis.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 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

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

Since then, the president has oscillated between saying the US has already won the war and that the military campaign will continue for a number of weeks, usually ranging between two and six.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 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

Expectations about the Federal Reserve’s next policy meeting oscillated sharply this past week, with a quarter-point cut in the federal-funds target rate once again being the odds-on bet.

From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025

The only sound was the fan, clicking each time it oscillated across the room.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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

Many physical systems behave like tiny oscillating objects, similar to springs or pendulums.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 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

This theory, like Huygens’s theory of oscillating systems, grew out of a piece of practical work connected with astronomy.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin