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multiple factors

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plural noun

  1. genetics two or more genes that act as a unit, producing cumulative effects in the phenotype

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“Multiple factors have impeded the downward price action that we anticipated based on fundamentals.”

From The Wall Street Journal

There are multiple factors that likely contributed to the recent spate of incidents, they say – and it's not the sharks that are the problem.

From BBC

She blamed "multiple factors" including the cost of food which had "doubled or tripled".

From BBC

To be sure, multiple factors play a role in how a stock reacts to earnings, including guidance and what the broader stock market is doing, but TE stock has tended to drop after earnings when the beat versus guidance is by less than 3%.

From Barron's

“Financial advisers often have a significant bias toward value and small-cap stocks in the portfolios they build for clients, so many investors would be well-served to be more diversified across multiple factors,” says Jay Jacobs, U.S. head of equity ETFs at BlackRock.

From The Wall Street Journal