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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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“Culture always outperforms every other variable in terms of what we want from the job,” Daisley said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 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

Most of the money went toward other types of “annuity,” such as variable and indexed-linked products that aren’t annuities in the same sense and that have often been criticized for their complexity and high fees.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Lens added that their domestic league risks being "gradually relegated to the status of an adjustment variable at the whim of the European imperatives of some".

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Back then the fallout had been sporadic and highly variable; some states had been nearly free of it, others became saturated.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick