state of flux
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstateandflux
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state
adjective[before noun]
uk/steɪt/us/steɪt/
provided, created, or done by the state (= government of ...
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flux
noun[U]
uk/flʌks/us/flʌks/
continuous ...
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(Definition ofstateandfluxfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofstate of flux
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Since almost all practices and procedures are largely in astateofflux, what is the likely outcome?
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The taxonomy of sphaeromorph acritarchs is problematic and is presently in astateofflux.
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Politics, such as it was, existed in astateofflux.
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However, the ideal was rare, and in reality, conditions surrounding the agreement were in astateofflux.
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Rather, they are in a constantstateoffluxand must continually be negotiated.
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Everything is in astateofflux: a stable harmonic field passes unnoticed into noise, and intervallic figuration can become a melodic pedal point.
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Moreover, species names change so the species list from any neotropical forest sample is in a continuousstateofflux.
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On the contrary, these structures were in astateoffluxin 1905.
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The evidence of rhyming indicates that some peripheral lexical items continued to be in astateoffluxlonger than others.
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This seems to be a matter still in astateofflux.
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The only way for the state to enforce the law was to change the shared standards of conduct within communities, which after all were in astateofflux.
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It is possible that the marsh is still in astateofflux, with dominant high marsh communities dominated by mixed annuals and perennials rather than sedge swamp communities.
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Probably we have become so entangled in this relatively small area because -ic and -ical are in such astateofflux.
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Simply put, the young brain was presumed to cope more flexibly with injury because its development was in astateofflux.
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Since knowledge is often in a continualstateofflux, the documentation is probably more important in knowledge-based software than conventional software as maintenance may well be higher.
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Meaning is the product of interaction between the observer and the system, the content of which is in astateofflux, of endless change and transformation.
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But whilst insightful these studies had the disadvantage of observing an immature bureaucracy that was in an evolutionary process and a political economy in astateofflux.
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One should bear in mind that the estimated figures for actual vaccination coverage, and thus the estimated projected reproduction ratios, are in astateofflux.
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Educational policy and urban planning were in astateofflux, but both lacked historical perspectives and both sought intellectual legitimacy in the expanding university world of the 1960s.
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