as in friction
a lack of agreement or harmony
persistent variance within the rock band eventually caused it to break up
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Recent Examples of variance
The Building Commission is responsible for determining whether to grant variances and waivers.
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Pili Saravia, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
This clear separation reduces variance, simplifies debugging and ensures the assistant doesn’t veer off track in the middle of a task.
—Alan Nichol, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Any variance between the most bearish and most bullish officials might hold a key to the future of U.S. monetary policy.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2025
Current applications automate routine tasks such as data entry, reconciliations and forecasting (e.g., accruals, invoice checks, variance explanations).
—Mitt Mehta, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for variance
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The common thread is technology that removes friction, creates visibility and adapts to changing needs.—
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For sure, this can prove too sanguine and perhaps there will be unanticipated economic friction ahead.—
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The policy, which aims to cut down on discretionary costs and was implemented in early July, sowed discord from both state police troopers and conference organizers, who have held the events annually without issues with Maryland troopers attending.—
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Rocket Lab's emergence also comes at a time of mounting public discord between Musk and President Donald Trump.—
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The sport of off-roading suffers from a fundamental discordance: The desire to get out into nature and the irreparable harm inherent in the process of off-roading.—
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Many of the tunes including sprawling intros and jam sessions, all melded together with discordance, reverb and instrumental solos.—
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More than 130,000 people have been evacuated from conflict areas in Thailand, where the death toll rose to 15 as of early Friday, 14 of those civilians, according to the health ministry.—
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These negotiations come at a particularly fraught moment, following a 12-day conflict triggered by Israeli attacks on Iranian targets.—
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Jai Joon Lee, a professor of business management at Sacramento State, said the industry’s strife is not limited to the Sacramento region, with breweries across the country struggling with fluctuating consumer demand for craft beer.—
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In Together, the cracks start off a little smaller, with Brie’s Millie and Franco’s Tim grounded in the ordinary strife that comes from any long-term union.—
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The cumulative effect of crises on top of crises — from war, to daily explosions suspected to be sabotage, to skyrocketing inflation, to water and power cuts — has many Iranians reeling.—
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The team behind 20 Days In Mariupol documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point.—
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In his dissent, Clifton argued that the state was within its rights to deny Bates under the statute and disagreed with the majority’s holding that the state violated her First Amendment rights.—
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The opinion from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was written by Ronald M. Gould, a Clinton appointee, and included a partial dissent from Patrick J. Bumatay, a first-term Trump appointee.—
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Immediately this show establishes a schism for its viewers’ nervous systems.—
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The huge divergence between the ADP and BLS reports, then, might not be that much of a statistical aberration — and could point to a growing schism in the U.S. labor market.—
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“Variance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variance. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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