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Recent Examples of volatility
Without that second leg, buying outright puts to hedge a portfolio gets expensive fast, particularly when volatility is already elevated and everyone else has the same idea.
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Nishant Pant, CNBC, 9 June 2026
Rising dollar volatility is endangering a currency-trading strategy that had been a steady winner in recent months.
—Carter Johnson, Bloomberg, 8 June 2026
That wound has been kept open not just by bad timing, but by a business model that amplifies volatility without capturing enough of the upside.
—Wael Mahdi, semafor.com, 8 June 2026
To be sure, IPOs are often accompanied by volatility.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 June 2026
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Nishant Pant, CNBC, 9 June 2026
Rising dollar volatility is endangering a currency-trading strategy that had been a steady winner in recent months.
—Carter Johnson, Bloomberg, 8 June 2026
That wound has been kept open not just by bad timing, but by a business model that amplifies volatility without capturing enough of the upside.
—Wael Mahdi, semafor.com, 8 June 2026
To be sure, IPOs are often accompanied by volatility.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for volatility
Noun
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To live in greater Los Angeles is to embrace the arbitrariness of it all.—
Meghan Daum,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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In both novels, young people are trying to figure out how life works, confounded by the arbitrariness of what is presented to them as natural.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Harris drove in three runs in the 11-5 win, offering a reminder of baseball’s fickleness.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Newsom explains his fickleness differently.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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Where the movie’s true eccentricity comes in is in its combination of breezy comedy with shocking brutality and gore, perhaps most exemplified in an oddly casual moment in a morgue where Seagal and Wayans find a clue in the form of a serial number on a dead woman’s breast implant.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
5 June 2026
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Luna spends the day in the socially conscious sign of Aquarius, shifting the emotional tone toward intellect, perspective, eccentricity and detachment.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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The immediate trigger for Saturday’s protest was the reported irregularity in a recent exam that quickly became a broader outlet for frustration over India’s education system and limited job opportunities.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 June 2026
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But there is also the question of Liverpool adapting to him, and whether a squad of players who pressed with irregularity last season can be whipped into shape.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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The actor argued that social media creates the illusion of intimacy while removing the unpredictability that comes with genuine human connection.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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That unpredictability is why early awareness matters.—
Jay Sparks,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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And agents introduce a new form of flakiness stemming from the fact that LLMs are non-deterministic.—
Ethan Pronev,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Others mistakenly describe these acts as flakiness, disobedience, laziness, or personal failure in the absence of context.—
Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
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Researchers examined whether regular use could influence physiological measures associated with stress regulation, including heart rate variability, a marker of autonomic nervous system function.—
Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 June 2026
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The researchers found wide variability.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2026
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“Volatility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volatility. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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