Example Sentences

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Stocks have oscillated between gains and losses as new economic data clouded the outlook for investors, a notable shift in the market after stocks jumped more than 6 percent in January.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2023

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

The public’s answers to these questions have oscillated.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2020

The faculties of the parents, as far as these are concerned, may have oscillated for the time towards the extreme of tensibility in one direction. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert