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variable
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The Maze Runner
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- They'll only kill you one a night ....their stupid Variables ....†
p. 257.2variables = things that are able to change
- Or variables.†
p. 263.3
- Throwing variables at us, trying to make us quit.†
p. 301.8
- Like I said, they wanted to test us, see how we'd react to what they call the Variables, and to a problem that has no solution.†
p. 304.6 *
- And I think it might be part of the Variables.†
p. 308.3
- I don't think they'll sting us—the Changing was a Variable meant for us while we lived here.†
p. 313.7variable = able to changestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" in variable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "Y", the "Y" is often replaced with "I" as in enviable and deniable.
- There is, of course, one final Variable.†
p. 355.1
- The responses to the Variables were satisfactory and encouraging.†
p. 373.3variables = things that are able to change
Definitions:
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(1)
(variable) able to change, or something that is able to changeA variable in mathematics refers more specifically to a symbol that represents a value or a set of values.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)