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variance

[vair-ee-uhns] / ˈvɛər i əns /


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Rybakina is now the World No. 1, and Sabalenka’s searching for answers for her high variance game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

There was a wide variance in incomes in cities in California with the most growth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

We thought the proposals could have impacts, "but we didn't expect two-thirds of ENSO's variance to disappear," Xing said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026

Vaughan later referred to various communications between Complainant A and Sir Jeffrey which, he suggested, showed a "friendly banter" at variance with the abuse allegations.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

It had to be precisely straight, he said, for the whole sixty-two- foot length of the boat, not a centimeter of variance from one end to the other or the boat would never run true.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

New sensors and live machine data were integrated to create live digital versions of the dough, capturing minute variances in raw materials—like the particle size of the flour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

“This did not result in any code variances or exemptions being granted.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Sometimes, what might stand out is a song that sounds almost too perfect, lacking minor flaws and variances.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

Given the variances, the clinical studies taken together offer a blend of uneven but encouraging evidence, the authors write.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

Nor does any one of them well know how our language would either sound or look, were he himself appointed sole arbiter of all variances between our spelling and our speech.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown


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