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Apple has proposed a variable compensation plan and discussed a possible nine-figure budget for the payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A self-admitted overthinker, he considers every variable ad nauseum.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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

The EFTC’s supporters are correct that schools’ variable expenses — which is primarily the cost of educators and administrators — can be adjusted downward.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Dozens of futures extended ahead of him, depending on his luck and the will of the Fates... and the variable that this girl presented.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

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

These considerations, along with the just mentioned correlation between regional population size and societal complexity, have led to a protracted chicken-or-egg debate about the causal relations between food production, population variables, and societal complexity.

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