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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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The only variable is how much they spend before conceding.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Just as important as hunting for a low interest rate is understanding whether the rate is fixed or variable.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

Mosquitoes “are always going to find a way to outwit us; it is amazing how variable they are, and because they’re so adaptable, they are unpredictable,” he said.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

"You get into variable pricing, and it's changing every couple of months" he says.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

What about an approach, an assumption, a concept, a condition, a context, a framework, an issue, a model, a process, a range, a role, a strategy, a tendency, or a variable?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

That metric gauges how likely chances are to result in goals, taking into account a range of variables, and Arsenal finished with almost three times the xG total of City.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

“I’m just locking in and staying focused on being able to manage the variables of a season,” she said ahead of the team’s loss to Sky in Chicago on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Computer models allowed them to explore how different variables interacted and to predict changes that would be difficult to measure directly in every experiment.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

The more internal variables, or parameters, a model has, the better it can handle complex requests, and Kimi K3 has around 2.8 trillion.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

They pay almost no attention to all the moons and planets, asteroids and comets, quasars and pulsars, exploding galaxies, symbiotic stars, cataclysmic variables and X-ray sources that have been discovered since Ptolemy’s time.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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