fluctuate
IPA: fɫˈʌktʃʌweɪt
verb
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
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Examples of "fluctuate" in Sentences
- Payments in dollar terms fluctuate with currency markets.
- What happens with these snow bands, Don and Fredricka, they kind of fluctuate and oscillate.
- They don't look too bad, but we've seen them kind of fluctuate to about 15 to 17 miles per hour.
- On Asia, first of all, we've seen operating margin there kind of fluctuate, swing pretty wildly between about 13% and 16%.
- To use these power sources, costs such as transportation and supply fluctuate, meaning city energy bills also ebb and flow.
- Note the winds are fierce and the snow is blowing, so we're likely to see these snowfall amounts kind of fluctuate throughout the day today.
- For instance, Goldman disclosed in its 2009 annual report that although its balance sheet can "fluctuate," asset levels at the ends of quarters are "typically not materially different" from their levels in the midst of the quarter.
- "Balances fluctuate, which is why we offer clients the option of an average combined monthly balance in their checking and savings account to avoid a service fee," Steve Troutner, Citi's head of consumer and small-business banking, said in an e-mail statement.
- A clear conception means a determinate conception; one which does not fluctuate, which is not one thing to-day and another to-morrow, but remains fixed and invariable, except when, from the progress of our knowledge, or the correction of some error, we consciously add to it or alter it.
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