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The nanoscale sensors look like rows of bulbous pendulums, each comprising a double-stranded cord of DNA.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

But pendulums swing and many workers are ready for a change.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2023

What he failed to mention is that the handshake would occur 60 feet off the ground as both actors hung on ropes like pendulums colliding.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2023

As snowboarders turn themselves into human pendulums in the halfpipe event at the Winter Olympics, they will be flying high and long.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2022

And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck