exogenous

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“That’s now exogenous; it isn’t going to change for a while,” he says.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

He said while the company absorbed an exogenous shock linked to tariffs, which “disproportionately affecting ad spend from our top retail advertisers, this quarter also underscored where we need to move faster.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

“We don’t have necessarily the final say on whether there’s going to be oil destruction exogenous events all around the world,” said Clayton Seigle, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

"On our own analysis, the 'extra' cases serve to underline rather than undermine this aspect of the phenomena that are said to be distinctive in those cases of administration of exogenous insulin," they concluded.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025

On the other hand, Corda has proved Flabellaria borassifolia of Sternberg to be an exogenous plant, and Brongniart contends that it was allied to the Cycadeæ.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir