variable

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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

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

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

Here were two successive experiments in human development, in which the environment was identical and the sole variable was the people occupying that environment.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond