as in undulating
rising and falling in a wavelike pattern
The animal swims with an undulatory motion.
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Our drills included hours of seamlessly merging poetry with three chords, providing me with an undulant field to riff on.—
Patti Smith, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2025
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As the undulant hills beyond the valley turned blue in front of me, a cat sauntered onto the veranda and wound its tail around my ankles.—
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The Australian actor debuted long retro sideburns and long dark wavy hair while telling the real-life story of a Neil Diamond tribute band in Song Sung Blue opposite Kate Hudson last year.—
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Lubeck, who has aquamarine eyes and long, wavy hair, cuts an ethereal figure, like an elven noble.—
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In women, extreme deficits can cause irregular periods or even amenorrhea (loss of menstruation).—
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Of course, the collective memory of the city, and its residents, can take irregular, even subterranean, forms.—
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Tensor frames the platform as a rolling data center, with autonomy as its core function rather than an add-on feature.—
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Those whose water supply comes from private wells and who are located within half a mile of the site of the spill are advised to distill or boil (at a rolling boil for at least one minute) all water for consumption.—
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Future work will focus on integrating snow-deposition modeling with PV yield simulations to more accurately predict energy losses and on expanding analyses to more complex, uneven alpine terrain.—
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The Trojans' uneven season hasn't exactly helped slow rumors either.—
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“Undulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undulatory. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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