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Recent Examples of volatility
Use the meeting-day volatility to rebalance toward your risk budget rather than chase the first move.
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Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
War is a realm of chance, accident, and volatility over which its participants can only ever hope to work a small measure of influence, as Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace reminds us.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Argentine bonds were among the best performers in emerging markets last year but had been throttled by volatility amid the Buenos Aires results and US support package.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
In recent years, despite all of the volatility of theatrical exhibition and ever-shifting windows and release strategies, grosses from premium, large-format locations have continued to gain momentum.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
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Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
War is a realm of chance, accident, and volatility over which its participants can only ever hope to work a small measure of influence, as Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace reminds us.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Argentine bonds were among the best performers in emerging markets last year but had been throttled by volatility amid the Buenos Aires results and US support package.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
In recent years, despite all of the volatility of theatrical exhibition and ever-shifting windows and release strategies, grosses from premium, large-format locations have continued to gain momentum.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 27 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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That almost feline fickleness mostly has to do with the structure of the comet itself, which can change over time.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
23 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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One way to assess possible malignancy is irregularity of a growth, speed of growth, localized lymph node metastasis as evidenced by enlargement of the nodes, and more but there is no substitute for an FNA or removal and biopsy.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
26 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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But what about a weekend fitness routine that is better than the unpredictability and potentially higher risk of participating in sporting events.—
Bryant Stamford,
Louisville Courier Journal,
30 Oct. 2025
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There’s a certain unpredictability and fleet-footedness required to play this budding outlaw, and the actor can’t convey any excitement in the part.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 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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Brady, however, said the database has always acknowledged changes in population and climate variability as important factors in the cost of disasters.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
22 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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“Volatility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volatility. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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