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Recent Examples of variability
This includes not just freight or labor swings but also variability in lead times, quality and vendor performance.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Research indicates that high daily blood pressure variability, either throughout the day or day-to-day, is a strong independent predictor of cardiovascular disease.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 14 May 2026
That level of variability is exactly why pilots are instructed to be conservative and do what makes sense in the name of safety.
—Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
Kindred notes that many patients consistently report worsening symptoms with friction and sweating, even if clinical studies show some variability.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 11 May 2026
The device works with a new health coach within the new Google Health app for iOS and Android and tracks steps, distance, sleep, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, resting heart rate and heart rate variability.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
Some of this variability has created conditions that have allowed hantavirus to flourish, experts say.
—Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
These scores are typically derived from multiple data points, such as heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory rate.
—Laura Bradley, Health, 5 May 2026
That said, a HELOC has a variable rate that will adapt to market conditions each month, so some variability will need to be priced into any long-term cost projections.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 4 May 2026
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Research indicates that high daily blood pressure variability, either throughout the day or day-to-day, is a strong independent predictor of cardiovascular disease.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 14 May 2026
That level of variability is exactly why pilots are instructed to be conservative and do what makes sense in the name of safety.
—Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
Kindred notes that many patients consistently report worsening symptoms with friction and sweating, even if clinical studies show some variability.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 11 May 2026
The device works with a new health coach within the new Google Health app for iOS and Android and tracks steps, distance, sleep, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, resting heart rate and heart rate variability.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
Some of this variability has created conditions that have allowed hantavirus to flourish, experts say.
—Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
These scores are typically derived from multiple data points, such as heart rate variability (HRV) and respiratory rate.
—Laura Bradley, Health, 5 May 2026
That said, a HELOC has a variable rate that will adapt to market conditions each month, so some variability will need to be priced into any long-term cost projections.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 4 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for variability
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Dripping glitter, shimmering adhesive crystals, dramatic slashes of eyeliner and smudges of eyeshadow—there was a playful, shifting experimentalism here, to signal the young characters’ changeability and ingenuity.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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That changeability brings a need for equally adaptable clothing.—
Nick Hendry,
Robb Report,
19 Sep. 2025
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Annual budget cycles built around predictable per-license costs cannot absorb that variance.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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That statistical variance was not lost on Toronto coach Sandy Brondello.—
John Davis,
Daily News,
18 May 2026
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Foreign governments are dumping US Treasury bonds to stabilize their currencies amid the energy shock and financial volatility triggered by the Iran war.—
Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
19 May 2026
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The landmark debut — and the potential capacity squeeze caused by other blockbuster listings in the pipeline, such as OpenAI — further complicates the outlook for Europe's IPO space, which is already grappling with ongoing bond market volatility and the prospect of looming interest rate hikes.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Jean-Claude Manuguerra, who heads Pasteur's Environment and Infectious Risk unit, said the remaining variation appeared to reflect natural viral variation and did not seem to affect the characteristics of the virus detected among travelers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 May 2026
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Thousands of other farmers perch in variations of these treehouses, which dot the landscape of central Sri Lanka.—
Diaa Hadid,
NPR,
16 May 2026
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Those who recognize a compositional genius that grew out of constantly shifting dynamics and tempos, jazzy originality and infinite mutability.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
8 Jan. 2026
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The film addresses themes of injustice, accountability in journalism, the mutability of truth, who gets to frame the narrative, and who gets erased.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Dec. 2025
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Tokenized deposits require real-time know-your-customer verification at every transfer and typically cannot function natively on fully permissionless public blockchains—creating friction for seamless global commerce.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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But adding that little bit of friction for one week, by having to log in on a web browser rather than just pulling out a phone without thinking, puts us back in charge of deciding where our attention goes.—
Jonathan Haidt,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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First-look deals offer more flexibility for creators, but that comes with smaller checks.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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In some cases, that may involve flexibility around closing timelines, occupancy dates, or smaller logistical considerations that can influence how an offer is perceived in a competitive environment.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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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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“Variability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variability. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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