vacillate

Example Sentences

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You have to see it so many times because you have to vacillate between watching the show and watching the audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024

But Mr. Putin seemed to vacillate on his own support for Mr. Prigozhin.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2023

His leadership skills were lackluster, he was not a charismatic or inspiring speaker, he tended to vacillate in decision-making and he struggled to retain the best staffers.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2022

We are a nation traumatized into forgetting, psyches so pulverized by mass death that we vacillate wildly between rage and numbness—waiting until the cycle begins again, so frequent it masquerades as normalcy.

From Slate • May 25, 2022

I did not dwell on the situation at Fort Hare, but life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela