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So I vacilate between wanting to dive in to all the drama and messiness, and wanting desperately to avoid the whole process.
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His emotive range certainly seems to vacilate between glib magnanimity and petulant animosity.
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I vacilate between whether we should stay or withdraw.
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She would vacilate and swing, having to love or hate her social worker, therapist, and unit supervisor.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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To those who do not know him as well as to those who vacilate and pretend, his sternness is repelling.
The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama Their Leaders and Their Work 1895
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I vacilate between engaging them and ignoring their self-centered ignorance.
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so which came first, does he vacilate because of the audience or waffle because of the changing chance of victory?
Joe Klein's scurrilous meltdown. Ann Althouse 2008
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