factor
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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
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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
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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
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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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