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oscillate

[os-uh-leyt] / ˈɒs əˌleɪt /


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“People oscillate between euphoria, depression, anger and hatred,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The combined findings suggest there may be a difference in how neutrinos and antineutrinos oscillate, indicating a possible violation of CP symmetry.

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 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

Then in 2020, Gaia uncovered that this warped disc slowly oscillates over time, similar to the motion of a spinning top.

From Science Daily Oct. 22, 2025

If the universe truly oscillates, still stranger questions arise.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

Throughout its history, Pakistan has oscillated from more civilian autonomy to overt control under military leaders like General Pervez Musharraf and General Zia-ul-Haq.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2025

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

Like many recent theater school grads, Dela Cruz was still trying to find his niche as a performer, oscillating between the pursuits of ethnic ambiguity — a casting asset — and cultural identity.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2026

When lithium niobate vibrates, it produces oscillating electric fields, and those electric fields can also trigger vibrations.

From Science Daily Jan. 17, 2026

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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