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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vacillate.

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Examples

  • The Apple store is too variable even stuff in the same series on the same label vacillates between 128 kbps and 256 kbps and once you've got it, that's it, as far as Apple is concerned.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

  • The Apple store is too variable even stuff in the same series on the same label vacillates between 128 kbps and 256 kbps and once you've got it, that's it, as far as Apple is concerned.

    Still impressed with the DG Web Shop Patrick J. Smith 2007

  • Aguirre, Weber's latest piece of minimal techno (or "sonic house," he calls it) under the Pantha du Prince moniker vacillates between extremes of the sublime and the stilted, the gorgeous and the slightly boring, confident auteurism plus brushes with self-parody.

    Cokemachineglow.com 2010

  • Aguirre, Weber's latest piece of minimal techno (or "sonic house," he calls it) under the Pantha du Prince moniker vacillates between extremes of the sublime and the stilted, the gorgeous and the slightly boring, confident auteurism plus brushes with self-parody.

    Cokemachineglow.com 2010

  • Aguirre, Weber's latest piece of minimal techno (or "sonic house," he calls it) under the Pantha du Prince moniker vacillates between extremes of the sublime and the stilted, the gorgeous and the slightly boring, confident auteurism plus brushes with self-parody.

    Cokemachineglow.com 2010

  • Aguirre, Weber's latest piece of minimal techno (or "sonic house," he calls it) under the Pantha du Prince moniker vacillates between extremes of the sublime and the stilted, the gorgeous and the slightly boring, confident auteurism plus brushes with self-parody.

    Cokemachineglow.com 2010

  • The mind always vacillates between the past and the future.

    Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: How Anger Hurts You Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 2011

  • Amanda Blank, who just released her debut, I Love You, also vacillates between singing and rapping, but she does neither particularly well.

    fourfour: 2009

  • Her work vacillates between photography, video, and performance.

    Timothy Hull: QQ1 With Artist Naomi Fisher Timothy Hull 2010

  • Though he despises Owen, Stockard vacillates between his desire to let the priest be killed and his inclination to help defend him against Baptise.

    “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010

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