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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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