variable

Example Sentences

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“Culture always outperforms every other variable in terms of what we want from the job,” Daisley said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Poppies here have typically peaked around mid-April, but variable weather in recent years has made it hard to predict, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Lens added that their domestic league risks being "gradually relegated to the status of an adjustment variable at the whim of the European imperatives of some".

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

"When light is 'lensed', the different paths the light follows to get to Earth don't all have the same length, so light moving along different paths takes variable amounts of time to reach us."

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

There are invariant and variable structures in speech that are common to all of us.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas