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Six example sentences with volatile, each labelled with its topic.
The stock turned volatile after the earnings call, swinging eleven percent up and nine percent down within one afternoon.
Finance
Food prices stayed volatile all year, so households could not plan a monthly budget with any confidence at all.
Economics
Mountain weather here is volatile: clear skies at breakfast can become sleet by the time you reach the ridge.
Travel
Polls showed a volatile electorate, with support swinging twelve points between surveys taken a week apart.
Politics
A volatile scorer, he might drop forty on Monday and go three for seventeen on Wednesday.
Basketball
Early revenue was volatile, doubling one month and halving the next as a single customer signed or paused.
Startups
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- Business Word List (part 2)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
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- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
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- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
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- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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