volatile
Example Sentences
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“Markets are less volatile than you might have expected,” Bailey said.
This doesn't include food or energy prices because they tend to be very volatile, so can be a better indication of longer-term trends.
From BBC
Traditional underlying inflation excluding volatile food and energy costs edged up, rising 0.1 percentage point to 2.5% on a year earlier.
Fewer people have responded to the survey in recent years, which makes the results more volatile than in the past.
From BBC
Core inflation, a measure that excludes the more volatile food and energy prices, fell even more steeply, from 3.2% to 2.6%.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
