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Recent Examples of volatility
The four-week average of claims, which evens out some of the week-to-week volatility, rose by 9,750 to 240,500.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
The strikes marked a major escalation of Israel’s war against Hamas and introduced a new level of volatility in a region fraught with conflict.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
That volatility will leave US companies like Expand, and their investors, with some difficult choices ahead.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But with their season opener a little over 24 hours away, Browns fans will finally have something more to talk about than the volatility of their team or the questionable decision-making of its front office.
—Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
The strikes marked a major escalation of Israel’s war against Hamas and introduced a new level of volatility in a region fraught with conflict.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
That volatility will leave US companies like Expand, and their investors, with some difficult choices ahead.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
But with their season opener a little over 24 hours away, Browns fans will finally have something more to talk about than the volatility of their team or the questionable decision-making of its front office.
—Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for volatility
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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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In This is Spinal Tap fashion, DiBergi captures the band’s eccentricities and penchant for attracting bad luck at every turn.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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To test a new idea, Lovell’s team built a model where eccentricity varies with distance from Fomalhaut.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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The challenge is to make Villa a productive and polished side again, while leaving a layer of unpredictability.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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The real skill is knowing when to intervene, when to let the system adapt and how to use this unpredictability to create better outcomes.—
Richie Etwaru,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Vinopure Acne Serum features salicylic acid derived from wintergreen leaves and antioxidant-rich palmitoyl grapeseed extract sourced from the brand’s vineyards in the South of France, which together leave skin clearer and smoother, without tightness or flakiness.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Your tolerance level for flakiness or vagueness can be flagged pretty quickly.—
Lucy Thorpe,
Refinery29,
10 Sep. 2025
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The analysis here honors the Maunder Minimum and Modern Maximum by scaling up the low-variability TSI of Coddington, similar to the approach of Ammann.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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But there are other factors at work, in addition to the infrastructure bottlenecks on Dell’Osso’s radar, that are causing a structural shift to greater gas price variability.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Volatility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volatility. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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