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factor

[fak-ter] / ˈfæk tər /


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The more important factor in whether the event will make a comeback, he said, is funding.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

There is another factor that could add volatility into the mix: hedge funds, a growing force in this market.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The OpenAI agents are built for different purposes, but an underappreciated factor in their going hacker mode is that the company’s own staffers were negligent and careless in monitoring their own experiments.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

His children will also be a factor if and when he ever decides to run.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

And in the end, the dominant factor in Gethenian life is not sex or any other human thing: it is their environment, their cold world.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The group then examined those locations for factors like the sea bed and the level of the water flow.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

However, Mihnea Cuibus, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford University's Migration Observatory, says it is "impossible" to disentangle the effects of government policy and other factors on small boat arrivals.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Money supply deserves attention, Mr. Warsh says, even though financial innovations and other factors affect the speed at which currency changes hands.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

The researchers emphasize that the results do not establish that these social factors caused changes in brain tissue.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

There are several factors involved in this engagement.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Any evidence of this type of activity can be judged by council assessors as a deliberate deprivation of assets, external and factored into their final figure of how much you should pay.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

It's likely that detectives will look closely at the inquiry's findings about those managers, which could be factored into their investigation.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Mizuho analyst Lloyd Walmsley wrote in a note to clients that Muse “marks the beginning of a substantial product cycle” that the market hasn’t factored into the stock price yet.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

That has consequences for the economy—because those products aren’t produced in the U.S., they are factored out of gross domestic product.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The water was blue and full of chlorine, and my eyes stung, but I factored the equation and realized I was upside down and all I had to do was right myself and swim up.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

In places like Minneapolis and Des Moines, Iowa, insurers are factoring in hail and severe convective storms, ICE added, which is a “a peril that is frequently overlooked but is now driving double-digit increases.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

Blockbuster US jobs figures last week have pushed up bets on a Fed increase -- the CME Group's FedWatch tool factoring a more than 60 percent chance of such a move.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

Prices across the South are at the lowest level in nearly 40 years before factoring in inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

His office also is creating public messaging to deploy in various scenarios and factoring the potential dynamics around prediction markets into security planning.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

It took ten minutes for him to re-create the solution he’d figured out with Mr. Keeney, this time factoring in the actual spacing between the two rock pillars which had been missing until now.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein




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