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The big losers from a rate rise are those who borrow money, and specifically those on variable rate mortgages.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

Once that promotional period is up, any remaining balance is converted to the card’s standard variable APR.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 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

In 1956, astronomers discovered that Cepheid variables were more variable than they had thought; they came in two varieties, not one.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

"Markets can absorb crude between $70 and $90, but when prices move above $100 a barrel, it starts putting stress on macro-economic variables such as inflation and also company earnings and margins."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Open-weight models are those whose parameters, or variables learned and adjusted during training, can be downloaded, run or modified by different developers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Parameters are variables learned during training that help determine a model’s output, with the count used as a rough gauge of scale and capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Too many variables had been ignored to make the calculations possible in a reasonable time.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson