fluctuate
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High tides levels in Southern California can fluctuate from 4 to 5 feet, sometimes even reaching 6 to 6.5 feet around this time of year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
A spokesperson for South Australia's Department of Primary Industries and Regions said cuttlefish populations "naturally fluctuate" depending on environmental conditions.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
PDD PDD -1.27%decrease; down pointing triangle Holdings has cautioned that its financial performance could fluctuate as it strengthens its e-commerce ecosystem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
However, the photons in each type of light fluctuate and interact in different ways.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The frontiers between the three superstates are in some places arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war, but in general they follow geographical lines.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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While her $3,400 rent is the same each month, her utility bill, which includes charges for shared utilities including water, wastewater, hot water and HVAC, fluctuates by hundreds of dollars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
It’s one of the largest concentrations of capybaras in São Paulo, though its exact number of members fluctuates.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
The cost of that fluctuates more directly in response to the oil price, so the latest global uncertainty has pushed up bills for those households refilling their tanks.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Joseph said that their annual spending fluctuates based on the work that needs to be done.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
In addition, receptivity to innovation fluctuates in time within the same region.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The share-price performances of hyperscalers like Amazon and Alphabet have fluctuated due to sentiment over the AI boom.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Asian markets fluctuated, though tech firms continued to enjoy a recovery from July's rout, as the AI boom returns to the fore.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Asian equities fluctuated between gains and losses Thursday afternoon as investors weighed a pause in the global bond selloff, while the yen strengthened to nearly a four-week high against the dollar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
His salary has fluctuated with different jobs, and he has been a student, but the CMS has often struggled to keep up, he told us.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Having never fluctuated much in value, triple-A-rated subprime-backed CDOs registered on Morgan Stanley’s internal reports as virtually riskless.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The volatile supply situation has weighed on ordinary drivers, with prices and availability fluctuating at each petrol station across the country.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
However, headline inflation is expected to be lower than previously assessed, it said Wednesday, reflecting fluctuating global energy prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Investors have increasingly turned to healthcare and biopharma stocks this summer as part of a rotation away from the fluctuating performance of tech and semiconductor stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
What the polls generally failed to foresee—and arguably shouldn’t have been expected to, given the fluctuating field—was that just enough voters would ultimately coalesce behind Crowley to put him over the top.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
In these cases, one mixes pseudorandom numbers from several computers, then incorporates the physical indeterminacy of randomly fluctuating voltages from a “white noise” source.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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