fluctuated

past tense of fluctuate
as in changed
to pass from one form, state, or level to another temperatures will fluctuate between the low and high 50s today

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Recent Examples of fluctuated The labor market is growing at a fairly robust clip, though performance from one month to the next has fluctuated significantly. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026 Partisan trends among young voters have fluctuated over the past few decades – in 2000, for example, 49% of young people voted Democratic, while 48% voted Republican. — Sara Suzuki, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026 Views on the role of childbirth, reproductive rights, sexuality, and the female body have fluctuated through time and place. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Oct. 2026 Quarterback play is … OK Florida’s offense has fluctuated in form and quality this season. — Noah White, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026 While the closing range has been limited to just 12 basis points, yields have fluctuated across a wider 27-basis-point range during the month. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 Most critics either loved it or hated it, and they were split right down the middle, with a Tomatometer rating that has fluctuated around 50% since the film’s release. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026 The number of servers running the software has fluctuated from 19,000 in the week following the patch to about 12,000 in the weeks following that. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026 Since then, the results have fluctuated between middling and downright putrid, and entering this year, Aranda was said to be on his last leg. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
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  • But when family friends, who had enjoyed Watt’s sweet tea for years, asked her to bottle and sell the beverage on their Mama Flo’s soul-food truck, her love changed from a family thing into a business dream.
    — Mará Rose Williams November 15, Kansas City Star, 15 Nov. 2026
  • The sedan changed lanes to avoid it while the truck followed behind.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2026
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  • My roles in Los Angeles County have varied from locking a ballot drop box at 8 pm on election night to being the second election worker in the van that takes the ballots from several vote centers to the ballot processing center.
    — Valerie Morishige, Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • While Friday’s industrial action has been nationwide, demands have varied from one location to the next.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
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  • Just when the momentum appeared to have shifted completely, the Yellow jackets answered with a two-minute drill worthy of the playoff stage.
    — Ryan Hunt, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Nov. 2026
  • Dirty glass The carbon dioxide features were shifted slightly toward shorter wavelengths and were much broader than those of pure carbon dioxide ice measured in the lab.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 14 Nov. 2026

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“Fluctuated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fluctuated. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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