Usually means: Cyclical decrease and increase pattern.
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  1. ebb and flow: Merriam-Webster
  2. ebb and flow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ebb and flow: Wordnik
  4. ebb and flow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. ebb and flow: Wiktionary
  6. Ebb and flow: Dictionary.com
  7. Ebb and Flow (mural), Ebb and flow, The Ebb and Flow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. ebb and flow: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Ebb and flow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. ebb and flow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. ebb and flow: Legal dictionary

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  1. ebb and flow, the ebb and flow: Idioms

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  1. Ebb and Flow: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ebb and flow)

noun:  The flowing out and in of the tide.
noun:  (figuratively) A large flowing out and in, or any waxing and waning of fortunes or activity.
verb:  To alternately ebb and flow, as:
verb:  (of the tides) To recede and advance.
verb:  (figuratively) To wax and wane.

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