volatile
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The shift in how contracts are priced is a game changer for the industry, which has historically seen volatile price movements lead the way to cyclical downturns.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026
Rising prices and a volatile currency have been among the major domestic economic fallouts of Moscow's four-year offensive on Ukraine, which has seen it hit with unprecedented packages of Western sanctions.
From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026
Amid the ruins of intense Israeli airstrikes, Lebanon’s battered Shiite community braved a volatile ceasefire to observe its most sacred annual ritual of Ashura.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026
AI is increasingly being billed by usage, and the price of tokens, the basic unit of AI computing, has been volatile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
Most walked around in a state of critical dehydration and malnutrition and as a result were irritable, volatile, light-headed, bleary, nauseated, gaunt, and crampy.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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