fluctuation

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If you hold a bond until maturity, you won’t be affected by this price fluctuation — you know you will receive the bond’s face value at maturity.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

There will be a small amount of fluctuation in every person's grey matter over time, but these results with a dip of nearly 5% are unexpected, Carmona says.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

“The fluctuation in value during this time period is consistent with the entire crypto market, which is typical in a bear market,” company spokeswoman Victoria Davis told me by email.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

It added that the measures underlying the financial-strength scoring don’t reflect utility-company performance well, and that performance improved excluding such factors as unusual tax effects and currency fluctuation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

And Pomp, hearing of change, mentioned his experiments in the fluctuation of swamp-water in ditches, which he hath conducted in his idleness, but which speculations would do honor to one of our academicians.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson