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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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The increase will apply to to its residential electricity unit rates and standing charges for customers on variable tariffs, effective from 4 August.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

It also sits relatively far from the center of the Milky Way and contains an extraordinary population of RR Lyrae variable stars.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

"The transition replaces variable costs with fixed costs: if a crisis hits and I have fewer orders, the loan burden remains," Gahl said.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

Firms that continue to rely on hourly billing risk eroding their margins, because AI creates an environment with low variable costs and high fixed costs, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

And then we were given the opportunity to study a variable on our own.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

"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

For home builders, the path of interest rates remains one of the most important variables to watch.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Uber said the investigation was fundamentally flawed and did not take into key variables such as the distance a driver has to travel to pick up the customer.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

Barclays emphasizes that gold’s key structural drivers — U.S. consumer-price inflation and central-bank buying — are “slow-moving variables whose influence accumulates over time.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 2026

But I wouldn’t be keeping within my experiment’s controlled variables if I used a nonhuman participant.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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