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variance

[vair-ee-uhns] / ˈvɛər i əns /


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Recently, “we pointed to the wide variance when it came to Street price targets as reflective of the uncertainty in the name, and thus incrementally supportive of owning the volatility,” wrote Jacobson.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

The actual discrepancy, Tinoco said, was 103 votes, a variance of 0.016% that was far below what he said was the state’s preferred 2% margin of error for certifying results.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

While polling heading into the primary showed a lot of variance, the average converged on Paxton leading the race by about 4 points.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

Performance and reliability: Distributed GPU networks face inherent challenges with performance variance, latency and quality control.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 3, 2025

Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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