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What does vacillate mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate.
  2. (intransitive) To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
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In the process of courtship, the approach that would make you feel irresistible is moods-swing, blow hot and cold in love, vacillate.
I say that in light of the history of this governing party over the last six or eight months as we watched it vacillate back and forth.
As such, foreign policies regarding China have tended to vacillate between strategic ambiguity and strategic engagement.
America's lack of fast-track has given too many countries the excuse to vacillate.
Van der Sloot appears to vacillate between apologetic and aloof in his response, captured on hidden camera.
When you're under too much emotional stress, you vacillate and procrastinate, especially when it has something to do with money.

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