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"Volatile" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.
Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.
For things that have had contents with volatile oil like thinners they should be left for a few days to completely evaporate it before being disposed of as non-flammable waste.
Reputations are volatile. Loyalties are fickle. Management teams are increasingly disconnected from their staff.
Tom and Mary's relationship was very volatile and they argued constantly.
The volatile old man who lived next to Tom often yelled at the neighbourhood kids.
Is elemental mercury volatile?
This is really volatile.
This is a volatile gas.
The situation has become very volatile.
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Its pricing is highly volatile — and therefore highly risky. For all its nosebleed ascents, bitcoin also has had some gut-punching plunges. Between November 2021 and November 2022, for example, the price of bitcoin dropped 75%, from $64,455 to $16,196, according to data on coinmarketcap.com.
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This method stores a value into a non-volatile field called result, then stores true in the volatile field finished. The main thread waits for the field finished to be set to true, then reads the field result.
Operations on C++ volatiles do put the compiler on notice that the object may be modified asynchronously, and hence are generally safer to use than ordinary variable accesses.
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