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Recent Examples of volatility
Sarah Breeden, deputy governor of the Bank of England, said agentic AI could amplify volatility during bouts of market stress.
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Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
There can be some volatility in aging curves, especially at this point in a player’s career.
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Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
But recent volatility, Lipsky says, has convinced many policymakers that such dependence may no longer be sustainable in the long run.
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Nik Popli,
Time,
2 July 2026
After mortgage interest rates declined by around a full percentage point in 2025, volatility in this space in the first half of the year erased much of that decline.
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Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
See All Example Sentences for volatility
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
There can be some volatility in aging curves, especially at this point in a player’s career.
—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
But recent volatility, Lipsky says, has convinced many policymakers that such dependence may no longer be sustainable in the long run.
—
Nik Popli,
Time,
2 July 2026
After mortgage interest rates declined by around a full percentage point in 2025, volatility in this space in the first half of the year erased much of that decline.
—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
See All Example Sentences for volatility
Recent Examples of Synonyms for volatility
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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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Early also has a larger target in view, the fickleness of internet celebrity, a lure that often comes with self-harm.
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Harris drove in three runs in the 11-5 win, offering a reminder of baseball’s fickleness.
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Director Craig Gillespie — whose impressive filmography has included I Tonya, Lars & The Real Girl, Pam & Tommy and Cruella — has proved to be a master at letting characters breathe in all their eccentricity.
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The stylistic eccentricities have been dialed back, including the use of old Hollywood film clips to reflect the action and possibly the thoughts of its main character, a cinephile from space, who is both practicing and enacting the work of a private detective.
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Others are chasing answers for chronic bloating, pain or irregularity that no doctor has been able to explain.
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The immediate trigger for Saturday’s protest was the reported irregularity in a recent exam that quickly became a broader outlet for frustration over India’s education system and limited job opportunities.
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That unpredictability, coupled with Johnson’s razor-thin voting margin, is testing the seemingly cozy relationship between the speaker and the president ahead of the midterms.
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For example, process is becoming more of an approach because business decisions are no longer linear and must be built for unpredictability and flexibility.
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Women were complaining of redness, flakiness, or peeling with the use of tretinoin, a retinoid that promotes collagen synthesis and elastin renewal.
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And agents introduce a new form of flakiness stemming from the fact that LLMs are non-deterministic.
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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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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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“Volatility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volatility. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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