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Fluctuate

  1. verb

    move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern

    “the line on the monitor vacillated”

    Similar: vacillate, waver

  2. verb

    cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern

  3. verb

    be unstable

    “The stock market fluctuates”

Word family

fluctuated · fluctuating

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