volatility

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for volatility
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Noun
  • For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • When the Daltons accept their new friends' invitation to spend a weekend at their secluded farmhouse in the English countryside, what initially seems like eccentricity begins to reveal a dark and dangerous secret that threatens everyone involved.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was a moment of silence as our tasters scrutinized Wholly Wholesome’s flakiness and overall appeal.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the local flakiness may have set in.
    Gene Pressman, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 15 Sep. 2025.

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