fluctuate
verb (used without object)
to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly.
is fluctuating
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present progressiveof fluctuate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“My temperature is fluctuating with associated chills and shivering, and I might have to go back to the ER soon,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
“Part of the year it’s below that; part of the year it’s above that. But the population is fluctuating around 1,250.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
My weight is fluctuating and I'll turn up to a shoot not being able to fit into something.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022
But looking at 10-year averages, it is clear the population is fluctuating around a mean well below the range of the 1990s and 2000s.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022
Thus it is with human affairs; all is fluctuating, all is changing.
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
