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It means people on variable tariffs should give an accurate meter reading, and - with forecasts of significant increases in bills to come - prepare for a more expensive winter.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Roberts also said alternating between right- and left-handers was not a variable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

"The causes of IBD are largely unknown and quite variable," Dr. Pang said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

But “the path of oil prices and their transmission into Fed policy remains the single most important variable from now till year-end.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Back then the fallout had been sporadic and highly variable; some states had been nearly free of it, others became saturated.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Meanwhile, the structure of the program drives a set of crucial economic variables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

His decades of research indicate that other variables have a larger influence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

He said there were "lots of variables" in public finances and that the SNP had demonstrated they could balance the budget through challenges including Brexit, the Covid pandemic and the financial crash.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

But one of the most critical variables, lifespan, might be treated as a fixed input, or have an upper limit that doesn’t extend far enough.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

In short, I acknowledge that it is much more difficult to understand human history than to understand problems in fields of science where history is unimportant and where fewer individual variables operate.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond