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• v  cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
• v  move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
• v  be unstable
• s  having unpredictable ups and downs
  fluctuating prices

• Looking back over the past three years, my older brother Patrick now understands the meaning of his increasingly frequent bouts of fatigue, his fluctuating appetite and the fact .
• His office is tucked on a narrow street that juts off the main square, where the rotund man with warm brown skin and salt-and-pepper hair receives a fluctuating stream of patients.
• Every day brings a number of new polls measuring every hiccup in voter support, but behind these fluctuating numbers are just regular people trying to make one important decision.

• fluctuate
• vacillate
• waver

News & Articles

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• Boise River to open to floaters on Friday
  BOISE -- Fluctuating temperatures expected later this week could put a damper on those expecting to float the Boise River Thursday. However, on Monday Ada County officials have announced that Friday will be the official opening day for Epley's Boise River Rentals at Barber Park. Local media outlets, including KTVB, had widely reported Thursday as the tentative 2013 season opener. The reason for ...
  June 10, 2013 - KTVB Boise
• Policy or happenstance? Jordan's dwindling Syrian refugee arrivals
  Aid workers are struggling to understand fluctuating Syrian refugee flows into Jordan in recent weeks. The government insists the border remains open, but refugees tell harrowing stories of being turned back.
  June 9, 2013 - IRIN

Quotes

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• Joachim Loew in New York Times
  In 2008, my team may not have been as consistent,Löw said Tuesday. "We were fluctuating in terms of quality and we might not have had enough quality in all of the positions that we have today."
• Cary Fowler in Reuters UK
  With almost half the world's population depending on rice, we wanted to make sure IRRI's genebank was insulated from the whims of fluctuating funding,Cary Fowler, executive director of Global Crop Diversity Trust, said in a statement.
• Ed Moy in International Herald Tribune
  Metal prices have been fluctuating so wildly in recent years that the Treasury and the United States Mint need the flexibility to react quickly, if necessary, to change the materials used in the nation's coinage,said Mint Director Ed Moy.