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

"By pushing and pulling on a phonon laser with light in the right way, we can reduce that phonon laser fluctuation significantly."

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 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

Then there might be stocks screened on other criteria, such as high profitability or minimal price fluctuation, or a couple of “strategic,” “discovery” or “dynamic” funds to make the mix sound more enticing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 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