variance

Example Sentences

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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

Lieberman sees a significant variance in the quality of the management teams in the sector.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

He adds that there was a reassuring positive variance in its life and health unit but that renewals look weak.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Performance and reliability: Distributed GPU networks face inherent challenges with performance variance, latency and quality control.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 3, 2025

Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee