variance
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Sir Laurie said the announcement "appears to be at direct variance with your original description of the role".
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Recently, “we pointed to the wide variance when it came to Street price targets as reflective of the uncertainty in the name, and thus incrementally supportive of owning the volatility,” wrote Jacobson.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
The actual discrepancy, Tinoco said, was 103 votes — a variance of 0.016%.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
While polling heading into the primary showed a lot of variance, the average converged on Paxton leading the race by about 4 points.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
The effect explains a large fraction of the variance in GNP.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing variance
Mechanical Engineering
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Structural Engineering
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