fluctuate
to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
to move back and forth in waves.
to cause to fluctuate.
Origin of fluctuate
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Other words from fluctuate
- non·fluc·tu·at·ing, adjective
- un·fluc·tu·at·ing, adjective
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How to use fluctuate in a sentence
Smith, the Turning Point field director, said, “The number fluctuates and many have gone back to school.”
Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter | Isaac Stanley-Becker | September 15, 2020 | Washington PostWriting in Ars Technica, John Timmer points out that aligning the coolant channels with all the components in a much more complex chip—whose activity could fluctuate based on the task—would be very tricky.
This Microchip Has Its Own Built-In Cooling System | Edd Gent | September 14, 2020 | Singularity HubIn addition, Enten found that favorable ratings can also fluctuate a lot after this point in the election cycle.
Trump And Biden Both Got Small Convention Bounces. But Only Biden Got More Popular. | Nathaniel Rakich (nathaniel.rakich@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 11, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightCycle length can vary greatly from woman to woman, and even fluctuate from month to month.
Everything You Need to Know About Period Tracking | Christine Yu | September 6, 2020 | Outside OnlineVenture investors last valued the company in 2015 at $20 billion, with the value fluctuating since then on the secondary markets.
Prominent Silicon Valley tech company departs for Denver | Verne Kopytoff | August 19, 2020 | Fortune
The numbers fluctuate, of course, but some trends can be discerned.
Worst of all, they elide the obvious point that all revolts fluctuate between periods of progress and regression.
Defeating the Arab Spring Syndrome of Self-Defeat | Talal Alyan | October 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMargins fluctuate in every market, and there's no reason for farmers to be treated as a special case.
Other ideas about crying fluctuate between the sociological and the biological.
With liquidity so low, share prices began to wildly fluctuate.
How Wall Street Computers Almost Killed Knight Trading | Alex Klein, Matthew Zeitlin | August 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir dimensions, which vary a good deal, fluctuate between two-fifths and four-fifths of an inch in length.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreBoth credit and currency begin to fluctuate wildly with the evaporation of public confidence.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsThe syllable has great inherent sonority and does not fluctuate significantly as to quantity and stress.
Language | Edward SapirHis resolutions might fluctuate, and the pause of a few minutes restore to him his first resolutions.
Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden BrownFaces begin soon (in Shakspeare's fine expression) to "dislimn:" features fluctuate: combinations of feature unsettle.
British Dictionary definitions for fluctuate
/ (ˈflʌktjʊˌeɪt) /
to change or cause to change position constantly; be or make unstable; waver or vary
(intr) to rise and fall like a wave; undulate
Origin of fluctuate
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