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Sufficient conditions are obtained for hyperbolic equations with functional arguments of the form \[ \begin{multlined} {\partial^2\over\partial t^2}u(x,t)= a(t)\Delta u(x,t)+\sum_{i=1}^m a_i(t)\Delta u(x,\rho_i(t))- \sum_{j=1}^k q_j(x,t)f_j(u(x,\sigma_j(t)))+f(x,t),\\ (x,t)\in\Omega\times[0,\infty)\end{multlined} \] under which every classical solution \(u(x,t)\) satisfying certain boundary conditions is oscillatory on \(\Omega\times[0,\infty)\). Here \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with piecewise smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\), and \(\Delta\) is the Laplacian in the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^n\). A solution \(u(x,t)\) is said to be oscillatory if \(u(x,t)\) has a zero on \(\Omega\times[t,\infty)\) for every \(t>0\).