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The only place to spot them is in a vacuum, where they should sometimes "oscillate" into normal photons. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
But the U.S. strategy right now seems to oscillate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2002] Reference
Failure to do so could cause the modem to oscillate DSR. From Wordnik.com. [AST Research Technical Bulletin #0024 CONNECTING UDS MODEMS WITH CC432 BOARDS] Reference
Humans tend to oscillate back and forth on ideas and mates. From Wordnik.com. [Lanny Davis: When We Pendulum] Reference
"That's going to cause a few sphincter muscles to oscillate.". From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
You, me, you, me, and they oscillate and they go back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference
The needle of the vertical speed indicator has ceased to oscillate. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
The red needle started to oscillate and he reached quickly to adjust a knob. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Made Plans] Reference
His jaw seemed to oscillate in oil as he mouthed his contempt of the horseman. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
The feelings do not so much advance like a river, as oscillate like a pendulum. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
FIELD: The earth tends to oscillate around a temperature that's relatively uniform. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007] Reference
Postmoderns sometimes seem to oscillate between a momentous but clearly false claim. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
He would oscillate between being Speaker of their Parliament, a scholar, and in jail. From Wordnik.com. [In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film] Reference
It must "not oscillate wildly between excesses of commitment and excesses of withdrawal.". From Wordnik.com. [Diplomacy in the Post-9/11 Era] Reference
What happens with these snow bands, Don and Fredricka, they kind of fluctuate and oscillate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2007] Reference
As for China, news reports oscillate between growth and contraction in that country's economy. From Wordnik.com. [Patience Seen as a Virtue in Oil Services] Reference
The figure is now made to oscillate slightly, so as to impart some little motion to the shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
In fact, Kubler-Ross points out that people often oscillate between those stages before moving on. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Hais and Morley Winograd: Have Patience: Republicans Are Working Their Way Through the Five Stages of Grieving] Reference
The wings oscillate gently in the darkness, some in patches of synchronized simple harmonic motion. From Wordnik.com. [justinker Diary Entry] Reference
The abiding mystery is why practice patterns oscillate so widely, even among hospitals in the same city. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Health Cost Illusion] Reference
We oscillate wildly from confidence in individuals to pushing the government into their decision calculus. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Gun Control, Health Privacy, 5-4: Time for a Conversation About... Ugh... Philosophy] Reference
The English media's ability to oscillate between sky-high expectations and abject gloom is second to none. From Wordnik.com. [French Soccer Still Can't Shake the Blues] Reference
The vocal tone is created as airflow bursts through the cleft of the vocal cords causing them to vibrate/oscillate. From Wordnik.com. [dailycomic Diary Entry] Reference
Under such auspices the ill-starred periodicals naturally oscillate between insipid propriety and labored coarseness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
The stones began to oscillate in her palm, scrubbing off two layers of skin before she could hurl them at the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
The beds were delightful for sleeping on, and clean, but one restless sleeper would make the row oscillate in harmony. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
And intellectual flirtations, like polemics, "oscillate between affirming and denying the genuineness of their positions.". From Wordnik.com. [Adultery Finds Witty Champion, Domestic Coupledom Takes a Hit] Reference
How the verses oscillate like the swaying calm of the sea, while the image inevitably floats into the scholar's imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
These attempts to oscillate between 100 troops and zero on the other are going to do no good for us and no good for the Afghans. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2009] Reference
Migrant workers oscillate betw~en wage labour and the "homelands" and thus do not represent a stable and permanent labour force. From Wordnik.com. [9. Exposing the Hypocrisy of Reforms: the Escalation of Strike Activity by Black Workers., 1979-80] Reference
Their needles and needle plates oscillate at the same rates so that the work is advanced while the needle is below the needle plate. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
These attempts to oscillate between 100,000 troops on the one hand and zero on the other are going to do no good for us or the Afghans. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2009] Reference
Do not oscillate the blade as you push it through the work, but keep the tooth line horizontal from one end of the stroke to the other. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Fortunately, just as it seemed almost touching the ship, when the whirling waves round its base made us oscillate from side to side, the. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Those waters out in the ocean of the Gulf are very warm, and this thing has the potential to stay at a 5 or oscillate between a 4 and a 5. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2004] Reference
As if in response to this thought, the thing's head began to oscillate slowly as if the long, thin neck could no longer support its weight. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
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