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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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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

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

Shortly after sunrise, Armpit opened his book and tried to understand the difference between fixed costs and variable costs.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

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

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

Meanwhile, the structure of the program drives a set of crucial economic variables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“We’re monitoring him, but Will needs to help us. He needs to keep the variables in his life to a minimum.”

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott


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