volatile
Example Sentences
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Ever-increasing premiums for health insurance or home insurance can prove volatile.
From MarketWatch
Excluding volatile trade and inventory swings, real final sales to private domestic purchasers rose 3%, indicating strong underlying demand.
From Barron's
In practice, “Santa” is a decentralized supply chain run by unpaid parents facing volatile demand, shifting preferences, tight budgets and hard delivery deadlines, with zero tolerance for stock-outs or perceived unfairness.
OTTAWA—Senior Bank of Canada policymakers were reluctant to predict whether the next change in interest rates would be up or down, citing volatile data and elevated trade-policy uncertainty, according to minutes published Tuesday.
Russian private military contractors in the Central African Republic told AFP they took any threats to the upcoming elections in the volatile country "extremely seriously" and were ready to "repel any provocations".
From Barron's
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