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Recent Examples of variability
The clinical version dates to research in the 1960s and 1970s, when devices tracked heart rate variability, muscle tension and skin temperature to help people regulate what was once considered automatic.
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Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
3 July 2026
When asked to run similar projections while modeling for factors such as return variability, family income and investor behavior, Morningstar showcases a more subdued picture of financial health for account holders at the same intervals.
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Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
Researchers used devices that tracked heart rate variability, muscle tension, skin temperature and brain activity, so patients could learn to consciously influence processes once thought to be automatic.
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Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
Because of the variability of viewing patterns throughout the year, the comparison is of year-over-year numbers as opposed to previous quarters.
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Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
2 July 2026
The company believes the approach will improve planning visibility, reduce supply variability, and provide critical industries such as automotive with more reliable access to advanced memory and storage technologies as demand continues to rise.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 July 2026
In laboratory testing, the aDBS system improved gait symmetry and reduced variability in walking patterns, and participants reported fewer falls while maintaining overall control of Parkinson’s symptoms when using the system in their daily lives.
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New Atlas,
1 July 2026
By utilizing a platform that provides a One Experience for data, networking, and security, IT teams reduce the variability that traditionally complicates Day 0 and Day 2 operations.
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Sam Rastogi,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
While the effects of these pollutants are strongest at middle to high latitudes, variability is lowest near the tropics.
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Scott K. Johnson,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2026
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
3 July 2026
When asked to run similar projections while modeling for factors such as return variability, family income and investor behavior, Morningstar showcases a more subdued picture of financial health for account holders at the same intervals.
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Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
Researchers used devices that tracked heart rate variability, muscle tension, skin temperature and brain activity, so patients could learn to consciously influence processes once thought to be automatic.
—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
Because of the variability of viewing patterns throughout the year, the comparison is of year-over-year numbers as opposed to previous quarters.
—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
2 July 2026
The company believes the approach will improve planning visibility, reduce supply variability, and provide critical industries such as automotive with more reliable access to advanced memory and storage technologies as demand continues to rise.
—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 July 2026
In laboratory testing, the aDBS system improved gait symmetry and reduced variability in walking patterns, and participants reported fewer falls while maintaining overall control of Parkinson’s symptoms when using the system in their daily lives.
—
New Atlas,
1 July 2026
By utilizing a platform that provides a One Experience for data, networking, and security, IT teams reduce the variability that traditionally complicates Day 0 and Day 2 operations.
—
Sam Rastogi,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
While the effects of these pollutants are strongest at middle to high latitudes, variability is lowest near the tropics.
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Scott K. Johnson,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for variability
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More specifically, genres, whether spoken or written, reflect the changeability of their formal characteristics in connection to changes in the situation and the actions relevant to these genres.
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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.
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Gallup research shows that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement across organizations.
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The board also had to grant a request to loosen zoning rules, called a variance, to allow for six housing units — which is a few more than would normally be allowed on a lot of its size — and make the project possible.
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But Exxon is a disciplined producer able to weather the volatility.
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This pattern of extreme volatility is common in high-profile IPOs, where initial hype often inflates share values.
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Making mini lava cakes is fussy, but this large format variation is as easy as can be.
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Futsal is a variation of soccer that uses five players on each side and is popular in Argentina and Brazil.
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Those who recognize a compositional genius that grew out of constantly shifting dynamics and tempos, jazzy originality and infinite mutability.
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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.
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Other insiders dispute this characterization, saying Gunn, Safran and Gillespie had the normal amount of healthy friction any filmmaker and studio have as part of the process of making a movie better.
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The energy is stored as rotational momentum in an environment of near-zero friction.
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But with the Sabres in a salary cap crunch, moving off the final season of his deal gives them more flexibility heading into the offseason.
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Sacramento could get under the first apron and tax moving on from DeRozan, but would lack real flexibility without being able to move on from LaVine or Sabonis, the latter of whom is making over $94 million combined over the next two seasons.
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During the pandemic, Lowe, the father of two boys, wrestled with establishing safety measures at Benjamin, and he was struck by the arbitrariness of many health protocols.
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To live in greater Los Angeles is to embrace the arbitrariness of it all.
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“Variability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variability. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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