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Merriam Webster's

noun plural Date: 1659 alternating rise and fall especially in fortune

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Up Up, n. The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs. [Colloq.] Ups and downs, alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. [Colloq.] They had their ups and downs of fortune. --Thackeray.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

(Colloq.) Successes and reverses, prosperity and adversity, good fortune and bad, various fortunes.

Moby Thesaurus

Lissajous figure, alternation, back-and-forth, chain of circumstances, chain reaction, chapter of accidents, coming and going, concatenation of events, ebb and flow, feast and famine, flux and reflux, ins and outs, reciprocation, rhythmic play, seesaw, seesawing, sine wave, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetering, to-and-fro, tottering, vicious circle, vicissitudes, vicissitudes of fortune, wigwag