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fluctuate
(redirected from fluctuant)

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fluctuate between (someone and someone else)
to waver between choosing one person and another. I am fluctuating between Sam and Tony as my choice. The manager fluctuated between Mary and Sarah as the new assistant.

fluctuate between (something and something else)

to move between one thing and another; to change from one thing to another. Things seemed to fluctuate between the very good and the very bad. The temperature in here fluctuates between too hot and too cold.

fluctuate with something

to vary in accord with something. The tides fluctuate with the phase of the moon. Frank's blood pressure fluctuates with his mood.


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A 42-year-old man with hepatitis C presented to the emergency department with fever and a tender, fluctuant neck mass on the right.
During the following 4 weeks, multiple firm, erythematous lesions developed, which were not tender, fluctuant, or itchy, at the site of the injury and on the medial and anterior aspects of the lower and upper arm (Figure).
Along the way, the reader is exposed to the intricacies of the US reaction to the 1989 Tiananmen "massacre"; the battle over human rights and trade preferences; the twin Taiwan crises of 1995-96; the summitry of 1997-98; the scandals, hype and accusations of the late nineties; and many other events during this wildly fluctuant decade in US-China relations.
 
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