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oscillating

adjective C2
  1. Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going.
  2. Describing a function or divergent series that moves between multiple values.
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His shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 107 · B2

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