variable

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Each program requires a variable fee, depending on insurance and usage.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 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

“I’ve seen my share of less savvy investors who have had brokers and insurance salespeople put their IRAs into deferred variable annuities,” says North Vale, N.J.-based financial adviser John Coumarianos.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Area is another obvious variable, ranging from the 100 acres of Anuta, the smallest permanently inhabited isolated Polynesian island, up to the 103,000 square miles of the minicontinent of New Zealand.

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