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variable

[vair-ee-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛər i ə bəl /


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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

The biggest variable, he added, isn’t the barrels themselves.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Global energy markets now hinge on a volatile new variable: battle damage assessments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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

There are invariant and variable structures in speech that are common to all of us.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas