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

The effect, barring some history-altering exogenous circumstance, has almost certainly been to push the war’s conclusion further into the future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

"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

In such stems the woody bundles are more numerous and crowded toward the circumference, and so the harder wood is outside; while in an exogenous stem the oldest and hardest wood is toward the centre.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa