variance

Example Sentences

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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

Lieberman sees a significant variance in the quality of the management teams in the sector.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Dec. 3, 2025

The hope was to become immune to the effect of injury, inconsistency and the natural variance of the postseason.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

He seen he wuz sick—everybody been knowin’ dat for de last longest, and den Ah reckon he heard y’all wuz kind of at variance, so dat wuz his chance.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston