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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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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

Most of the money went toward other types of “annuity,” such as variable and indexed-linked products that aren’t annuities in the same sense and that have often been criticized for their complexity and high fees.

From MarketWatch • 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

The line representing fixed costs was flat, and the one representing variable costs angled upward.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar