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Fluctuate   /flˈəktʃəwˌeɪt/   Listen
Fluctuate

verb
(past & past part. fluctuated; pres. part. fluctuating)
1.
Cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern.
2.
Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern.  Synonyms: vacillate, waver.
3.
Be unstable.






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"Fluctuate" Quotes from Famous Books



... responsible for the outcome of unintelligent copy as it would be unjust to blame the soil for bad seed and poor culture. Every advertiser gets exactly the same number of readers from a publisher and the same readers—after that it's up to him—the results fluctuate in accordance with the intelligence and the pulling power of the copy which ...
— The Clock that Had no Hands - And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising • Herbert Kaufman

... idea nonsense; although, if we are permitted to speak of the harmony of the tones of a cloud, why not of the harmony produced by the consenting lines of a countenance, where every grace melts into another, and the various features and expressions fluctuate into a fine whole? Whatever, whether it be the beauty of the human face, or the quiet lustre of statuary, or the mild glory of moonlight, gives the effects of music, and, like that ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... concerning the Jews fluctuate and vacillate. And amidst these hesitations the thought of a complete removal of all the Jewish disabilities never died. Here is another historical excursion covering a century. The Committee of Jewish Affairs of the year ...
— The Shield • Various

... by the average amount of the note-issue for four weeks preceding. The object of the holding of this amount of specie by the bank which issued the notes was designed by Sir Robert Peel to cause the circulating medium of the country, being partly of notes and partly of specie, to fluctuate in the same manner as if it had been a metallic circulation only. The specie held in Scotland and Ireland against the note-issue is not a special security for the note circulation, but is placed in the banks there ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various

... influence the style of the fabric, and its selection must be according to the effect intended to be produced.[133] The fashions of the day, and the needs of the special manufacture, must greatly modify the choice of materials, which fluctuate, often disappear, and sometimes ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford


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