exogenous

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Then an exogenous shock to the system happens and access to capital closes as stock prices fall and credit spreads widen.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

“That’s now exogenous; it isn’t going to change for a while,” he says.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“We don’t have necessarily the final say on whether there’s going to be oil destruction exogenous events all around the world,” said Clayton Seigle, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

"On our own analysis, the 'extra' cases serve to underline rather than undermine this aspect of the phenomena that are said to be distinctive in those cases of administration of exogenous insulin," they concluded.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025

Any exogenous control, or environmental variable, can be looked on simply as a timing oscillator.

From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Johnston, Richard F.