variation
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A Federal Reserve paper published last year found substantial and arbitrary variation in agent commissions across metropolitan areas.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
But it stresses that is an average and there could be considerable variation, and that estimate will depend partly on the outlook for energy prices, which have a wide economic impact.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
The company said in mid-April that each one dollar variation in the price of a barrel has a $340 million on its annual operating profit before tax.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
That work found that ancient southern Africans carried genetic variation outside the range seen in living people and identified Homo sapiens specific variants that may shed light on adaptation and evolution within Africa.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026
I lacked the fine thick hair-thatch and the downward eye-slant of the typical Gethenian, and was blacker and taller than most, but not beyond the range of normal variation.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing variation
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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