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But there is a significant variable: I have a brain tumor.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The rest of the UK will have a dry day on Sunday with variable cloud and some spells of sunshine at times.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

Recycle: Our car’s Prestige package bundled much of the upgraded creature comforts, including nappa-leather upholstered sport seats; a Bang & Olufsen 3-D sound system; and panoramic roof glass with variable light control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 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

But there are many variables, so this possibility may not apply in your case.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

“There are just so many variables that the insurance companies didn’t really know how to price it, and so it’s been very expensive for motor carriers to insure these trucks,” Loya said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

A close relationship between these rates is critical to calibrating monetary policy because few transactions that matter for key macro variables like gross domestic product, employment and inflation depend on the overnight interest rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The intensely personal nature of his business, the subjectivity of taste, the variables of light and curtains and carpets, guaranteed that minds would reevaluate and work would have to be redone.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers