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Recent Examples of volatility
Climate volatility, economic precarity, geopolitical unrest and an algorithmic attention economy are all conspiring to keep us in survival mode.
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Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
Your stepson is a teenage boy, the definition of volatility and impressionability.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
That volatility comes in part from the incomplete data driving these models.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
Out of this volatility, Iran’s post-Khamenei order could take several forms: nationalist strongman rule, clerical continuity, military dominance, populist revival, or a unique hybrid of these.
—Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2025
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Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
Your stepson is a teenage boy, the definition of volatility and impressionability.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
That volatility comes in part from the incomplete data driving these models.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
Out of this volatility, Iran’s post-Khamenei order could take several forms: nationalist strongman rule, clerical continuity, military dominance, populist revival, or a unique hybrid of these.
—Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for volatility
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The sense of arbitrariness that had previously bewildered and frustrated me was drowned out by excitement and sheer aesthetic pleasure.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 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 same goes for Lanthimos’ ability to draw performances out of actors that suggest a freedom to indulge in eccentricity, the stranger the better.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Rhoden and her colleagues studied how the eccentricity could have changed to recreate what is seen at Mimas today.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Lately, Parker has also embraced the wabi-sabi ideal—that there is glory in irregularity, in something being vaguely misshapen.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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Election observers noted numerous irregularities in the polls, which were widely dismissed by the international community as neither free nor fair.—
Kate Bartlett,
NPR,
10 Oct. 2025
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Stevenson currently gives the Patriots more flexibility and unpredictability.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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Impacts from a typical La Niña cut across the continental United States, having opposite effects in the south and north — and causing unpredictability in the heavily populated Northeast corridor.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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There’s no tackiness or flakiness and this particular shade for me, just makes my lips look and feel so pouty and glossy — with a shine that lasts.—
Stixx Mathews,
Essence,
21 Oct. 2025
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But agitation, redness, and dry flakiness aren’t unheard of.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
9 Oct. 2025
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Biological markers included telomere length, which is a marker of cellular aging (longer telomeres indicate slower aging), and heart rate variability (HRV), a marker of stress resilience (a higher HRV is better).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Oct. 2025
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The company says the true rate of suicides on its Florida route is higher than government agencies report because of the variability in how local law-enforcement agencies and medical examiners make their determinations.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Volatility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volatility. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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