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as in fluctuation
the frequent and usually sudden passing from one condition to another
fickle springtime weather in which there seemed to be an unceasing oscillation between unseasonable heat and unseasonable cold
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as in vibration
a series of slight movements by a body back and forth or from side to side
the precise oscillations of the quartz crystal that allows a quartz watch to keep such accurate time
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Recent Examples of oscillation
And its tracing of spatial distributions emerges from spying enormous bubblelike arrangements of galaxies thought to have formed from more primordial templates, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs).
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Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
Users can choose to heat or cool an entire room with 70-degree oscillation or concentrate the gadget’s power to one area.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025
The researchers’ goal was to inject tracer dye into CSF at one point in the brain and then track its oscillations and dynamics while the mice slept.
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Then the neutrino beam at Fermilab is scheduled to go live by 2031, allowing for oscillation measurements.
—Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
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Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
Users can choose to heat or cool an entire room with 70-degree oscillation or concentrate the gadget’s power to one area.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025
The researchers’ goal was to inject tracer dye into CSF at one point in the brain and then track its oscillations and dynamics while the mice slept.
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Then the neutrino beam at Fermilab is scheduled to go live by 2031, allowing for oscillation measurements.
—Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oscillation
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The fluctuations were presented in a record that became known as the Keeling Curve, which demonstrated carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere were increasing every year.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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There will likely be some fluctuation in costs in the US, but this gives us a vague estimate of how much to expect things to increase, considering most of these costs are due to higher manufacturing costs.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
5 June 2025
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Sound consists of vibrations that the lathe’s stylus etches into grooves on the disc.—
Richard Gunderman,
The Conversation,
28 May 2025
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Mid-June presents a few setbacks to your otherwise positive vibration.—
Liz Simmons,
StyleCaster,
27 May 2025
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One countywide measure of changes in values that is calculated to more closely match market values showed growth of only 3.6% from 2024 to 2025.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
31 May 2025
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People who are relatively young and healthy could consider forgoing an annual shot, absent a dramatic change in the virus.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
31 May 2025
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“Oscillation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oscillation. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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