oscillate
verb (used without object)
to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.
have oscillated
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present perfectof oscillate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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International oil prices have oscillated under $90 a barrel in recent days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Since then, talks between the two parties have oscillated due to Pakistan’s reluctance to impose new tax measures.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
Kurdish claims have oscillated between full-on separatism and autonomy within a multi-ethnic Iranian state, spanning a wide political spectrum from left-leaning secularism to right-wing Islamist thought.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2022
Those who have spoken to reporters have oscillated between acknowledging the group’s losses and insisting that such losses were only temporary.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2019
The Stoic was nominally a pantheist, but he seems to have oscillated between a spiritual and a materialist explanation of the universal being.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
