variance
Example Sentences
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All this variance and randomness, all these rules on top of regulations, none of it is exactly arbitrary, but neither is it fair.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
Sir Laurie said the announcement "appears to be at direct variance with your original description of the role".
From BBC • May 19, 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
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
It had to be precisely straight, he said, for the whole sixty-two- foot length of the boat, not a centimeter of variance from one end to the other or the boat would never run true.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing variance
Mechanical Engineering
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Structural Engineering
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