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"Fluctuation" implies that there was an upturn in public opinion at some point in the simple-minded fiasco that is the Iraq War.
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"Fluctuation" probably isn't the right word, as the data shows that prices have been rising steadily since August of 2007.
Joystiq 2009
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I like to think of Mr. Cuthbert Wright, in some headlong moment of American hustle, still having the self-control to cry, "Time and Fluctuation wait for no man." .... from: "An Apology for Buffoons"
October 8th, 2008 m_francis 2008
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On the September 18 third-season premiere “The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation,” the guys had to jo.
Planet-x.com.au » The Big Bang Theory: Lewis Black Guests on 'The Jiminy Conjecture … 2009
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On the September 18 third-season premiere “The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation,” the guys had to jo.
Planet-x.com.au » The Big Bang Theory: Lewis Black Guests on 'The Jiminy Conjecture … 2009
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True to his political activism Nick Matzke decides to claim, using unwarranted extrapolation from limited evidence (e.g. Luria-Delbrück's Fluctuation Test), that evolutionary science has solved the problem of the origin of biological information and complexity.
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True to his political activism Nick Matzke decides to claim, using unwarranted extrapolation from limited evidence (e.g. Luria-Delbrück's Fluctuation Test and now The Origin of New Genes: Glimpses from the Young and Old by Manyuan Long, Esther Betrán, Kevin Thornton & Wen Wang), that evolutionary science has solved the problem of the origin of biological information and complexity.
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Fluctuation in the supply of ecosystem services is normal, especially in drylands, but a persistent reduction in the levels of all services over an extended period constitutes desertification.
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Fluctuation in the vote for both parties indicate that from 1950 through the 1980s House elections trended toward more defectors, although that trend reversed in recent elections.
Harold L. Wilensky: 2008: Democratic Sweep or A Near Miss? 2008
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Fluctuation in the cod stock off Iceland during the twentieth century in relation to changes in the fisheries and the environment.
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