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Vacillating meaning
present participle and gerund of vacillate
Synonyms of Vacillating
Using Vacillating
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of vacillate
- Useful related words include: vacillant, wavering, irresolute.
- In the example corpus, vacillating often appears in combinations such as: vacillating between, and vacillating, the vacillating.
Context around Vacillating
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vacillating
- In this selection, "vacillating" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, haplessly, strange, innocence, hope, nehru and king stand out and add context to how "vacillating" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after haplessly vacillating between supporting and an innocence vacillating between good. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vacillating" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vacillating
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Being a Hornets fan is a treatise in vacillating hope and deflation. (12 words)
During his imprisonment, he reportedly would observe some fellow inmates having strange, vacillating behaviour. (14 words)
Polk was a strong proponent of immediate annexation, while Clay seemed more equivocal and vacillating. (15 words)
In Miss Julie, characterisation replaces plot as the predominant dramatic element (in contrast to melodrama and the well-made play) and the determining role of heredity and the environment on the "vacillating, disintegrated" characters is emphasized. (36 words)
Yennefer spends the majority of Season 1 vacillating between being a villain and being an anti-hero, with the deeply seeded baggage of her abusive early life playing a key factor in her personal identity. (35 words)
While the camera does manage to pull in a decent amount of light, it doesn’t always manage light intelligently, often vacillating between underexposure and overexposure, both of which look fairly bad. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
As a movement it is diffuse and vacillating and shows a distinct reluctance to candidly own and freely confess of the interpretive tradition bequeathed to us by the English Reformers.
Being a Hornets fan is a treatise in vacillating hope and deflation.
Germany must authorise the tank deliveries it has been vacillating over and other allies must provide the technology and materiel Ukraine is pleading for.
True, former president Rodrigo Duterte botched any attempt to engineer a favorable succession after haplessly vacillating between supporting either his consiglieri or daughter.
While the camera does manage to pull in a decent amount of light, it doesn’t always manage light intelligently, often vacillating between underexposure and overexposure, both of which look fairly bad.
Yennefer spends the majority of Season 1 vacillating between being a villain and being an anti-hero, with the deeply seeded baggage of her abusive early life playing a key factor in her personal identity.
It has been caught in the lie that a chest-thumping Modi can do better than a vacillating Nehru.
A major Franco-Spanish fleet was lost at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, prompting the vacillating king of Spain to reconsider his difficult alliance with Napoleon.
During his imprisonment, he reportedly would observe some fellow inmates having strange, vacillating behaviour.
Gay (2002, 158) Garrick's portrayal focused on the inner life of the character, endowing him with an innocence vacillating between good and evil, and betrayed by outside influences.
In Miss Julie, characterisation replaces plot as the predominant dramatic element (in contrast to melodrama and the well-made play) and the determining role of heredity and the environment on the "vacillating, disintegrated" characters is emphasized.
Polk was a strong proponent of immediate annexation, while Clay seemed more equivocal and vacillating.
Common combinations with vacillating
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: