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noun

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Adjective
Samsung has announced that its 2025 OLED TV range will finally introduce official support for NVIDIA’s G-Sync variable refresh rate gaming technology. John Archer, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025 An input lag of 4.6 milliseconds in the TV's dedicated Game mode is speedy enough for twitch reflexes, and the panel refreshes at 120Hz and supports variable refresh rates. K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 20 May 2025
Noun
The anticipatory behavior wasn't triggered by changes in light or temperature—variables that remained largely unchanged until the eclipse. Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025 With so many options and variables, Feldman said the choice comes down to individual needs and preferences. Nathan Diller, USA Today, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for variable
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Adjective
  • Other big miners, including archrivals BHP, Anglo American and Glencore, have steered clear of lithium, am important metal in batteries, but one which is also abundantly available puts suffers from extremely volatile pricing.
    Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Unlike volatile digital assets like bitcoin, the value of stablecoins is tied to a real-world asset like fiat currencies or commodities like gold.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • One smart way to sell qualifications is to communicate the willingness to be adaptable to innovations and tactical strategies.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • Additionally, adaptable technology providers should offer scalability and customization, which allows brands to grow while leveraging increasingly sophisticated automation and analytics tools.
    Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Outlaw Music Festival touched down Thursday night on the North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, California, and Bob Dylan once again delivered a wildly unpredictable set that stunned even his most hardcore fans.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
  • Another plus: The votes were completely unpredictable from week to week, leading to some truly crazy Tribals.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • This leaves behind a white dwarf as a gradually-cooling stellar ember.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The white dwarfs are currently orbiting around each other, with each orbit lasting over 14 hours.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite its grandeur, over the centuries the palace proved to be a flexible structure, capable of accommodating additions, splits, partitions, changes of ownership and use.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
  • After all, supportive sneakers for walking through a city, flexible pants for long-haul flights, and versatile pieces that can be worn multiple times throughout a trip are essentials on any packing list.
    Rachel Trujillo, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • The gravitational pull of the star's remains would have been strong enough to crush together protons and electrons to form neutrons, meaning a neutron star is mostly made of neutrons.
    Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 22 May 2025
  • Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • After three years, it’s studied nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars (super-bright cores at the centers of galaxies) to create the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • The scientists found Big Wheel near a quasar, which is a powerful and active supermassive black hole, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
    Larissa G. Capella, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Variable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variable. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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