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fluctuate

[fluhk-choo-eyt] / ˈflʌk tʃuˌeɪt /


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PDD previously cautioned that its financial performance could fluctuate as it strengthened its e-commerce ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Indexed universal life, on the other hand, typically has the buyer pay in a lump sum to start for a death benefit that can fluctuate.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

After that, if the temperature doesn’t fluctuate, it would “tell us that the fire problem, or the small explosion, has been mitigated,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

"Our findings suggest that the regularity of bedtime, in particular, may be important for heart health. It reflects the rhythms of everyday life -- and how much they fluctuate," Nauha says.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

Some nearby examples, tens or hundreds of millions of light-years away, are powerful sources of X-rays, infrared radiation and radio waves, have extremely luminous cores and fluctuate in brightness on time scales of weeks.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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