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Recent Examples of volatility
In line with meme coin volatility, $TRUMP surged more than 1,00% over the weekend, then lost half its value by Monday — the kind of stomach-churning loss that make meme coins the jankiest slot machines of the largely unregulated crypto casino.
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Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
During the entirety of Trump's first term, the S&P 500 rose nearly 68%, but markets saw bouts of volatility, stemming in part from a trade war Trump fought with China.
—Suzanne McGee and Lewis Krauskopf, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
Image Rami weathered the volatility in this new country and even began doing business under his name — mostly logistics for cross-border aid and development.
—Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Growing up in tension, fearing a parent’s volatility, can leave a young person with painful but shrewd premonitions about possible danger and with acute impulses to protection.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
During the entirety of Trump's first term, the S&P 500 rose nearly 68%, but markets saw bouts of volatility, stemming in part from a trade war Trump fought with China.
—Suzanne McGee and Lewis Krauskopf, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
Image Rami weathered the volatility in this new country and even began doing business under his name — mostly logistics for cross-border aid and development.
—Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Growing up in tension, fearing a parent’s volatility, can leave a young person with painful but shrewd premonitions about possible danger and with acute impulses to protection.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for volatility
Noun
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Earth's orbital eccentricity is 0.017; Mars' is 0.055, and Mercury's is 0.206.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, for all his film’s eccentricities — Blue Velvet’s freaky Frank Booth huffing, well, whatever that stuff is, Lost Highway’s spine-chilling Mystery Man, or Wild at Heart’s Sailor kung fu-kicking in a snakeskin jacket — Lynch wasn’t trying to be controversial.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 Jan. 2025
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The audits of all four high school foundations, which provided the district with $5 million in funding to support students in the last school year, were spurred by a report circulated by Canyon Crest Academy students alleging financial irregularities within the CCA Foundation.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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Short-seller Hindenburg Research accused the company of accounting irregularities in a detailed report last year.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Each stick is spiked with buildable pigment and ultra-conditioning olive oil to ensure patches of flakiness are down to a minimum.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
25 Jan. 2025
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So eventually, unspoken frustrations (socks on the floor, too many nights out, a pattern of flakiness) build into resentment, which can leak out in the form of unproductive, passive-aggressive comments or more explosive, potentially hurtful blowups.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Volatility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volatility. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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