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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

"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

For those focused on dividend yields, keep in mind that some energy companies pay variable quarterly dividends, with these policies explained in quarterly earnings releases.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

A special type of star, called a Cepheid variable, had a property that allowed Hubble to measure the distance to faraway objects.

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