pendulum

Over the decades, the pendulum has swung back and forth between more decentralized and more coordinated models of the economy, each time expecting a different result.

Elections have swung back and forth in an almost predictable pendulum fashion since 1992 — unified control of one party, divided government, unified control of the other party, and so forth, over and over.

In the past four months, talk of reform and proposed structural changes to combat racism at agencies has started to shift the pendulum — but more action is required.

Snails with coiled or elongated shells tended to swim straight up, and to sink straight down whenever they stopped flapping, their shells hanging like pendulums beneath their wings.

As the pendulum swings away from data-heavy, third-party based audience targeting, publishers are using contextual data tools in smarter ways and gaining more control over their contextual ad revenues.

But gerrymandering has cold cocked the pendulum weight, stopped it dead.

The pendulum swing between moods and tone, however, became a staple of the shoot.

I think the pendulum has swung back on that because of books like The Blood Telegram.

The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction from physician paternalism towards willful ignorance by patients.

Shaked spoke in these generalities initially—referring to two sets of people, two polar opposites on a pendulum.

By what word is the relation between “pendulum” and “a smile and tear” described?

The sword clattered from his hand and rolled, with a pendulum-like movement, to the feet of Garnache.

To swing a pendulum, picked out from a number of them at random, without touching it is a very puzzling trick.

Another pendulum may be pointed out and he will start that one apparently by looking at it, while the other one stops.

With a little practice anyone can become a skilled medium in pendulum swinging.