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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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The 470,000 mortgage-holders on variable deals would need to wait for their lender's reaction to any Bank rate rise.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Quantum particles can exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, but the universe as a whole does not necessarily have a built-in time variable.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Fuel prices remain the key variable in the outlook, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

But he surely understood that this was an incautiously brief period of measurement, for the river’s annual flow was wildly variable, ranging from about 9.1 million to 25 million acre-feet during the 20-year sampling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

In truth the questions may be variable, but sometimes the answers are not.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Building on their earlier work, they used a self-similar form of Einstein's equations to represent the standard cosmological model as a rest point, a mathematical state in which the system's defining variables remain unchanged.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

But the idea is the same: Future expectations are likely to move current variables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Open-weight models are those whose parameters, or variables learned and adjusted during training, can be downloaded, run or modified by different developers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Eurasia’s east-west major axis, unlike the Americas’ north-south major axis, permitted diffusion without change in latitude and associated environmental variables.

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


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