fluctuation

Example Sentences

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This is up 13% on the last three months, but due to fluctuation over the last year represents a smaller increase - of 2% - from September 2024.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

The additional energy used during measurement can provide richer information about the clock's behavior, not only counting ticks but capturing every minor fluctuation.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025

“There’s always fluctuation, there’s always mess in the system, and somebody needs to clear this mess,” said Utkin, of DTEK.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

“I think there is going to be a short-term fluctuation in the trend that ultimately corrects itself and resumes the path it was on while Netanyahu is in power,” he said.

From Salon • Sep. 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