Example Sentences

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"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

While a 50 basis point hike for February is fully priced in, markets are oscillating between 25 and 50 for March.

From Reuters • Jan. 19, 2023

Unlike other experiments, the neutrino beam would probe a wide range of energies, thus taking a fuller picture of how neutrinos are oscillating.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2022

Since they are oscillating perpendicular to the direction of the light ray, they produce EM radiation that is polarized perpendicular to the direction of the ray.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The answer is that because they are oscillating a very sensitive galvanometer is not possible.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.