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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Another variable could be the climate, noted Jonathan Schroer, a strategist at UniCredit.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

Evidence of a connection has remained elusive however, as El Niño is notoriously variable, making it difficult to distinguish long-term changes from its natural ebb and flow.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The decisive variable in the war remains military manpower, said Gady, including whether Putin will launch a large-scale mobilization in the coming months to redouble his ground campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Area is another obvious variable, ranging from the 100 acres of Anuta, the smallest permanently inhabited isolated Polynesian island, up to the 103,000 square miles of the minicontinent of New Zealand.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

But she deliberately avoids strict plans because, she says, "there are too many variables at play".

From BBC Sep. 9, 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

"If we want to realize the potential of precision medicine, we have to understand these fundamental biological variables," says Professor Joseph Powell, co-senior author and Director of Garvan's Translational Genomics Program.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Instead, it seems to me that, in the past, good institutions always arose because of a long chain of historical connections from ultimate causes rooted in geography to the proximate dependent variables of the institutions.

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




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