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How to use the word volatile in a Sentence?

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On the one hand, the fact that inflation is still running at more than twice the target level, and core inflation — which includes goods and services, excluding volatile food and energy — saw an uptick to 5.6% in March, highlights that the Fed still has more to do and may need to lift short-term rates again at its early May meeting, on the other hand, overall inflation slowed more notably, and even core inflation on a month-to-month basis eased somewhat, a sign that the Fed’s tightening is having the desired effect.

Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In a volatile market environment, moves are exacerbated.

Francesco Pesole

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the central bank doesn’t get inflation back in place … you can have a long series of years where inflation is high and volatile. And it’s hard to invest capital. It’s hard for an economy to perform well. And we’re looking to avoid that.

Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The problems that faced Silvergate were primarily a result of less-than-adequate risk management, notably one of relying too much on volatile short-term deposits while lending or investing at a longer duration, this is not like the collapse of FTX, where investors lost their deposits, but, rather, an orderly dissolution.

Dave Weisberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Airfare is the most volatile thing people regularly purchase. Today’s expensive flight is tomorrow’s cheap flight, and vice versa.

Scott Keyes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In terms of some of the symptoms of headache, et cetera, unfortunately volatile organic compounds share, with a host of other things, the ability to cause very common symptoms at the lower levels – so headache, eye irritation, nose irritation, et cetera, i think that we have to look at the measured facts – and the measured facts include the fact that the air sampling in that area really is not pointing toward an air source for this.

Nathen Velez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a finite pool of talent for presidential campaigns available, and in large, multi-candidate fields there’s intense competition for them. You see this before every presidential cycle when there’s an open shot at the nomination, additionally, even though President Trump starts as the front-runner for the Republican nomination, there’s a lot of trepidation among staffers about working for him. He’s been volatile in the past, and staff haven’t always ended their service with him on great terms. So there’s a desire to look at some of the other candidates in the field and jump on board.

Ryan Williams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

Merlin Sheldrake

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

I know right now everything is really volatile and inflation is really high and we don't know when it's going to go down, so I would just want to make sure they have a good plan of lowering making it a lot easier to live in America.

Ray Lambert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's easy to look in from the outside and say that Traditional Owners on the Pilbara are' pro-mining,' but it's a volatile place to speak your truth about what's taking place on country, people are afraid of having their livelihoods threatened in a place where there is no other economy.

Larissa Baldwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mortgage rates remained volatile due to the tug of war between inflationary pressures and a clear slowdown in economic growth.

Sam Khater

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China has been becoming more expensive for several years already, but what happened in the last year is it became more volatile, having said that, it's impossible at this stage to find places that have the skills and the volume to be able to deliver what Apple needs.

Gad Allon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ultimately, American politics are very volatile, and if the Kingdom and others have learned anything, it's that they can't put all their chips on Jonathan Panikoff.

Ali Shihabi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Getting raw and packed materials to the places we need to get them to continues to be costly and highly volatile.

Andre Schulten

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ The plan ] will be central to weaning Britain off expensive fossil fuels, which are subject to volatile gas prices set by international markets we are unable to control.

The UK government

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Prices are going to be high and very volatile for the foreseeable future, until one of two things happens.

Joe McMonigle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The message will slowly get through, particularly if the military gets bogged down significantly, this is an extraordinarily volatile time, I think, in Russian public opinion towards the war.

Timothy Frye

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Should [Biden] go through with this deal, a new Axis will likely form, consisting of Russia, China, and Iran, sadly, if the last few weeks has not proved Biden’s multilateralist fantasy to be exactly that, then he will continue to weaken the United States’ international standing and destabilize volatile regions around the world.

Jason Killmeyer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know the market is volatile and will come up and down with surges in variants.

White House

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[ LaBeouf ] got mad at me, and it turned into a volatile moment that Brad Pitt ultimately got in the middle of.

Scott Eastwood

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This( practice) has devolved into a mess once, it will again. Just stop. Just quit doing it, put legislation in place that brings back the original intent of the Fourth Amendment -- you've got to get a warrant, have to knock and announce, have to give proper notice, have to give time to answer the door, and if you need to engage in a risky arrest situation or volatile, dangerous arrest situation, figure out a different way to do it than to bust down a private resident's door and manufacture a really dangerous situation.

Peter Kraska

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even if a correction were to occur, we believe it could be less volatile for Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. due to our technology leadership position and the structural megatrend.

C. C. Wei

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right now, the crime situation is really a very volatile situation, but what are the cops doing? They're going from bars to restaurants and enforcing, with very heavy fines, the vaccine passports.

Jeffrey Tucker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I guarantee you the vast majority of the people involved in the rioting and looting couldn't point China or Taiwan out on a map, they were there as opportunists because they have had very limited economic opportunity. It's a very poor country with high youth unemployment, and this just shows how quickly these things can spiral out of control in a country that's volatile.

Jonathan Pryke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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