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vacillation

[vas-uh-ley-shuhn] / ˌvæs əˈleɪ ʃən /


NOUN
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But it’s D’Angelo’s soaring vocals that transmute the molten instrumental throbbing into a transcendent buzz, achieved through multi-track vocal layers and a vacillation between climactic reverb roars and serene breaks.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025

It just captures this vacillation of the human experience so perfectly for me — like, I’m dancing, I’m driving in the dark.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024

But Kim said his self-defence force "can not be bartered nor be bought with anything" and will be held firm without the slightest vacillation despite harsh trials and difficulties.

From Reuters • Mar. 27, 2022

Even as Germany was expanding its territories against a backdrop of international vacillation, it was forming political alliances.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

But a century of vacillation and indecision had ill prepared them for such a decisive step.

From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem




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