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Apple has proposed a variable compensation plan, with payments made to partner publishers when their content is used, some of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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

The biggest variable between now and November is energy, Harker said, and no economic tool allows the administration to control what happens in the Persian Gulf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

The EFTC’s supporters are correct that schools’ variable expenses — which is primarily the cost of educators and administrators — can be adjusted downward.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Area is another obvious variable, ranging from the 100 acres of Anuta, the smallest permanently inhabited isolated Polynesian island, up to the 103,000 square miles of the minicontinent of New Zealand.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“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

"Temperature is one of the most misunderstood variables in wine service," adds Michael Sager, founder of Sager + Wilde wine bar in London.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

After the crazy night the day before, I was ready for a nice quiet lunch, full of numbers, variables, quadratic equations and not much else.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine