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Recent Examples of variability
This variability allows researchers to better dissect how different parts of the genome interact with each other and affect how a disease develops.
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Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
This variability makes tungsten diselenide unreliable for quantum applications.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
There's a lot of variability in the different health behaviors of our centenarians.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
The state faces the dual challenges of preparing for both drought and floods, as climate variability increases the frequency and severity of weather swings.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
This variability highlights the fragile nature of deskless operations.
—Big Think, 22 Sep. 2025
While there is an overall drying trend, there is normal variability in arid environments.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
However, later periods also featured a larger variability in those water levels.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
The further back the level, the more variability is created by changes in inventory stocking levels.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
This variability makes tungsten diselenide unreliable for quantum applications.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
There's a lot of variability in the different health behaviors of our centenarians.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
The state faces the dual challenges of preparing for both drought and floods, as climate variability increases the frequency and severity of weather swings.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
This variability highlights the fragile nature of deskless operations.
—Big Think, 22 Sep. 2025
While there is an overall drying trend, there is normal variability in arid environments.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
However, later periods also featured a larger variability in those water levels.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
The further back the level, the more variability is created by changes in inventory stocking levels.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for variability
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That changeability brings a need for equally adaptable clothing.—
Nick Hendry,
Robb Report,
19 Sep. 2025
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The point is not that these are simply interpretations of the world, because an interpretation implies a degree of conscious awareness and changeability that closure often lacks in the moment.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
28 Aug. 2025
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There was also a bit of variance between economic sectors, with the models performing best on tasks from government, retail, and the wholesale trade, and generally worst on tasks from the manufacturing sector.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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Gallup finds that managers and leaders account for 70% of the variance in employee engagement.—
Kathryn Landis,
Harvard Business Review,
25 Sep. 2025
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Japan’s political volatility began after Shinzo Abe stepped down as prime minister in 2020.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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The impact, however, extends far beyond short-term market volatility.—
Tim Reynolds,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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He actually got started in Argentina by helping establish a variation on a currency board in 1991, helped design and impose that construct in Estonia (1992), Lithuania (1994), Bulgaria (1997), and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1997), and later advanced dollarization in Montenegro (1999) and Ecuador (2000).—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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This is a great collection for finding an enormous rug in every taupe variation (perfectly suitable for a lavish outdoor patio or a minimalist living room rug) for $108.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
7 Oct. 2025
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The passage of the ACA in 2010 and its implementation have only intensified this friction.—
Simon F. Haeder,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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Armenian prisoners of war in Azerbaijan remain a point of friction and the rhetoric over the corridor has not died down.—
Michele Crestani,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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With its mix of competitive races, cooperative party games, and the flexibility to play on the TV or in handheld mode, the Switch 2 turns screen time into quality family time.—
Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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These are the kinds of turning points that make flexibility essential.—
Hillary Stalker,
Nashville Tennessean,
2 Oct. 2025
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For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The AlphaEarth Foundations team told IEEE Spectrum that one limitation in Earth observation is the inherent irregularity and sparsity of the data.—
Shannon Cuthrell,
IEEE Spectrum,
15 Sep. 2025
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Nature, in all its exuberant irregularity, was a common passion for Jean Schlumberger and Rachel Lambert Mellon—he the legendary longtime Tiffany & Co. designer, she the philanthropic green thumb better known as Bunny.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Variability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variability. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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