vacillating

Example Sentences

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The American people appear to be vacillating between learned helplessness and mass disinhibition.

From Salon • May 1, 2025

After a wildly vacillating game against Marquette in which the Bruins’ 12-point lead became a seven-point deficit, they had the ball trailing by two with 21 seconds left.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

But Cohen also said he was “compelled to comment upon the vacillating positions of the City of Atlanta throughout this litigation.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023

As his parents, Michael Goldberg and Juliane Köhler come off as clueless boomers trying their best to be tolerant and vacillating between self-recrimination and despair.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

Three overlapping reasons appear to have converged in Adams’s mind and provided decisive direction to a foreign policy that, until then, had been vacillating between the incompatible agendas of the Federalists and the Republicans.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis