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as in fluctuations
the frequent and usually sudden passing from one condition to another
the English language is always in a state of flux
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as in influxes
a flowing or coming in
January typically brings a great flux of returns to department stores
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as in melts
to go from a solid to a liquid state
a solid will flux more quickly under pressure
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Recent Examples of fluxes
Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The satellite’s microwave radiometer can detect subtle variations in sea-surface salinity, which is critical for studying ocean circulation, freshwater fluxes, and climate patterns.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
That’s why At One has invested in Gigablue, which uses microalgae to accelerate natural carbon fluxes into deep-sea sediments.
—Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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During this storm, some space weather forecasters reported temporary data dropouts, likely caused by intense proton fluxes degrading spacecraft measurements.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The satellite’s microwave radiometer can detect subtle variations in sea-surface salinity, which is critical for studying ocean circulation, freshwater fluxes, and climate patterns.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
That’s why At One has invested in Gigablue, which uses microalgae to accelerate natural carbon fluxes into deep-sea sediments.
—Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fluxes
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With the lack of clinical data that drives personalization and innovation, women, who experience unique hormone fluctuations across the lifespan, have been underserved.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
3 Feb. 2026
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The space weather center warns that the material could bring possible glancing influences that could cause weak power grid fluctuations.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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Largely invisible at the time, especially compared with the vast Italian and Jewish migrations a century earlier, these influxes were ultimately just as transformative.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Upheavals, repression and economic turmoil under those leaders sometimes produced large influxes of new arrivals.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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The snowpack that builds up over the winter in the Sierra Nevada slowly melts to feed rivers and reservoirs through the spring and summer.—
Monica Garske,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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Anchored to the ocean floor, the curtain would act as a physical barrier, limiting the flow of warm seawater that melts the ice shelf from below.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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The microscope captured collective oscillations of superconducting electrons.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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There’s not much to quibble with in the market’s to-and-fro oscillations among sectors and themes so far.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Fluxes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fluxes. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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