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Apple has proposed a variable compensation plan, with payments made to partner publishers when their content is used, some of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Mosquitoes “are always going to find a way to outwit us; it is amazing how variable they are, and because they’re so adaptable, they are unpredictable,” he said.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Further south, though, it looks set to be another generally dry day with variable amounts of cloud and some sunny spells.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The biggest variable between now and November is energy, Harker said, and no economic tool allows the administration to control what happens in the Persian Gulf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

My forlorn thought flows variable as her song, wondering: shall I stay beside my son and guard my own things here, my maids, my hall, to honor my lord’s bed and the common talk?

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

That metric gauges how likely chances are to result in goals, taking into account a range of variables, and Arsenal finished with almost three times the xG total of City.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Because of the many variables, it’s impossible to say exactly how the city’s trend line would have changed if the beds were counted correctly each year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

One of the difficulties in compiling this report was the analysis suffers from what the team refers to as the “omitted variables problem.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Computer models allowed them to explore how different variables interacted and to predict changes that would be difficult to measure directly in every experiment.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

I was doing crazy calculations, looking at people, scanning the room, assessing the variables.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah