variance
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Sir Laurie said the announcement "appears to be at direct variance with your original description of the role".
From BBC • May 19, 2026
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
Goodwin is also troubled by what he labels “stale pricing,” as marks on some positions have a wide variance and can be conservative or unreliable.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 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
This discovery—called regression to the mean—would have a powerful effect on the science of measurement and the concept of variance.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing variance
Mechanical Engineering
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Structural Engineering
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