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adjective

exogenous

derived or originating externally

In a sentence

Six example sentences with exogenous, each labelled with its topic.

  • The model treats the oil price as exogenous, since nothing inside the country's own economy can move it.

    Economics

  • The lake's phosphorus is largely exogenous, washed in from farm fields rather than released by anything living in it.

    Science

  • Researchers separated exogenous cues, such as a sudden flash, from the attention a subject directs on her own.

    Psychology

  • The crash was an exogenous shock to the small bank, which had made no bad loans and simply watched its funding vanish.

    Finance

  • Patients on exogenous insulin take the hormone from a vial because their own pancreas produces too little of it.

    Medicine

  • The founders blamed an exogenous event for the missed quarter: a port strike that stalled every shipment for six weeks.

    Startups

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