variable

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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

Lens added that their domestic league risks being "gradually relegated to the status of an adjustment variable at the whim of the European imperatives of some".

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Additionally, the basement section of the unit that my wife and I occupy produces variable rental income of about $15,000 per year through the short-term-rental service Airbnb.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

The myriad factors affecting innovativeness make the historian’s task paradoxically easier, by converting societal variation in innovativeness into essentially a random variable.

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