vacillate ˈva-sə-ˌlāt verb
1. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
2. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
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The word vacillate has appeared in 63 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 16 in “D’Angelo Russell Is Poetry on the Court. Take It From a Poet” by Kelly Whiteside:
The poet and the point guard have never met. But they see the parallels in their crafts — the push-pull between creativity and pragmatism, between daring and safe.
Before this season, Mikko Harvey, an award-winning poet long enamored of the playing style of D’Angelo Russell, wondered if the Nets would ever find a place for their new point guard, whose imaginative play can vacillate between the beautiful and the boneheaded.
Do you throw the no-look pass for beauty’s sake when a practical pass would do?
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