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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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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

Wall Street manias and crashes, sadly, are about as variable as a Scooby-Doo episode.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Under scrutiny, some companies, including grocery-ordering service Instacart, have backed away from experiments with variable pricing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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

I don’t have a variable for eye color, but I bet his uniqueness would scare some people.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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

While it is difficult to compare week by week attendances because of the number of variables, the international break does offer some fans the chance to watch other teams in action.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Signum one has four variables: Brent crude oil, the 10-year yield, the number of Hormuz crossings and the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

I was doing crazy calculations, looking at people, scanning the room, assessing the variables.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah


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