variable

Example Sentences

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But another variable may yet prove relevant to the timeline of his remaining presidency, which hasn’t quite three years to run.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Poppies here have typically peaked around mid-April, but variable weather in recent years has made it hard to predict, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Notably, most of the products sold were of the complex type, such as variable and indexed annuities, that typically generate the highest fees for the salespeople.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

"When light is 'lensed', the different paths the light follows to get to Earth don't all have the same length, so light moving along different paths takes variable amounts of time to reach us."

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

When Newton denoted position with the variable x, he realized that velocity is simply the fluxion—what modern mathematicians call the derivative—of x: x.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife