variable

Example Sentences

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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

Their quick-ramp ability suits the highly variable power needs of data centers.

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

Parallel syntax is just the Rule of One Variable applied to writing: if you want readers to appreciate some variable, manipulate the expression of that variable alone while keeping the rest of the language unchanged.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker