Bel Powley

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

British Actress

Barbara Ehrenreich

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

American Writer

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

British Artist

Killian Scott

Politics is real. It has an impact on people's lives. It's harder to quantify the impact art has. Personally, I oscillate between two extremes. Some days I think it's very important. Other days I think it isn't important at all.

Irish Actor

Cai Guo-Qiang

I'm always oscillating between if I should sprinkle more gunpowder or less. But if I put too much gunpowder, there may be holes throughout the silk. If not enough, the power and energy would not be shown.

Chinese Artist

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

Rabih Alameddine

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

Lebanese Artist

Julien Baker

I think there's seasons of life. It oscillates.

American Musician

Brad Pitt

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Actor

Used when describing something with a motion similar to a swinging pendulum.

Physical Movement

Sometimes used metaphorically for things that don't physically swing but vary regularly.

Metaphorical Use

Emphasizes the regular back-and-forth characteristic of an action or process.

Repetitive Action

Often used to describe quick shifts in emotions or opinions.

Emotional Shift

Can describe someone's indecision or changes in decisions over time.

Decision Making

Use to suggest that no fixed position has been taken on an issue or choice.

Uncertain Position

In physics, it refers to very specific and measurable periodic motion.

Scientific Precision

Highlights the predictability of how something oscillates over time.

Regular Pattern

Can be jargon for non-physicists, often used in academic or technical discussions.

Physics Jargon

 What we think of as subatomic particles, electrons and photons and their relatives, are actually vibrations in a quantum fabric that extends throughout the universe. And because of a physical law called the Heisenberg Principle, these fields never stop oscillating, even without any particles to set off the ripples.

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 Well, just about any calculations involving circles, from the volume of a can of soda to the orbits of satellites. And it's not just circles, either. Because it's also useful in studying curves, pi helps us understand periodic or oscillating systems like clocks, electromagnetic waves,

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 introduction to biology as a technology I followed this preoccupation through engineering this is a theremin it's a musical instrument does anyone know it yeah awesome where you play it by waving your hands in front of antenna and you interfere with them with an oscillating

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 No matter how skilled a clockmaker may be, every pendulum, wind-up mechanism and quartz crystal resonates at a slightly different frequency. However, every cesium 133 atom in the universe oscillates at the same exact frequency. So thanks to the atomic clock,

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 a musical effect in which a note slightly oscillates in pitch. This creates a fuller sound that rings out over the instruments’ comparatively narrow vibratos. Once they have the right partials, they employ other techniques to boost their volume.

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 Electromagnetic radiation is pure energy consisting of interacting electrical and magnetic waves oscillating through space. As these waves oscillate faster, they scale up in energy. At the lower end of the spectrum, there's radio, infrared,

Is radiation dangerous?...

 and the midsized buildings that collapsed were observed shaking far more violently than the earthquake itself. How is that possible? The answer has to do with something known as natural frequency. In an oscillating system,

Why do buildings fall in...

 most earthquake-prone regions are where the most geologically active plates meet earthquakes or any seismic activity are recorded by seismographs when the ground shakes seismographs oscillate drawing a

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 With me cheerleading from the front as I walked backwards, because I needed to keep eye contact with him, I sang his favorite songs, as we oscillated between our bedroom and the kitchen.

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 Coralline algae applies a kind of purple paint. The deepest red I've ever seen in my life lives underwater. Gorgonian fans oscillate with the waves.

Oscillate

To move back and forth regularly like a pendulum in a clock.

Often appears as...

To keep changing from one belief, feeling, condition, etc. to another and back again.

Often appears as...

In physics, to move or fluctuate between a high and a low, particularly within a regular period of time.

Often appears as...

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Metaphorical Use

Repetitive Action

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