How to Use X factor in a Sentence

X factor

noun

• Still, the X factor on this week’s chart was clearly the sales.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
• Who or what will be the X factor for Golden State in this match-up?
  — Sporting Green Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2023
• Whether Trump appears at the debate may be the X factor.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Expect the ground game to be featured (heavily) in this one, but success in the air will be the X factor.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 1 Sep. 2022
• And those aren’t the only X factors scientists have to contend with.
  — WIRED, 29 June 2023
• For many in human resources, AI remains a big X factor.
  — Graham Glass, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Some ineffable X factor that transcends all of the above?
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The X factor for the 49ers is versatile wide receiver Deebo Samuel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
• That makes data the X factor for every competitor trying to go faster and shatter records.
  — Joel Shapiro, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• But what’s the X factor that separates a champion from a mere player with talent?
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 21 July 2023
• As always, the coronavirus remains the biggest X factor.
  — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2021
• We're meant to understand her unprocessed grief as the X factor in the showdown between Wakanda and Namor's ancient watery tuf, Talokan.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 8 Nov. 2022
• No telling what that means for Monday afternoon, in part because outdoor games come with an X factor — a sheet of ice, even when at its best, that just isn’t up to the standards of smooth, groomed, and cured indoor ice.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• The only X factor reflected on the pages is that the company’s official corporate name is now X Corp.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 July 2023
• Trump's mounting legal issues have become something of an X factor in the primary race.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
• But a few other X factors may be behind her decision to stay in the race, like the possibility that Trump is barred from the ballot in states beyond Colorado and Maine.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• But there’s an additional X factor that is blowing up the rules of innovation.
  — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• The other ever-present X factor in holiday travel is there are thousands of folks catching flights who do not travel often.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2022
• But the potential for major sports to migrate from the bundle to streaming is not the only X factor that could hasten corporate strategizing.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• No one can play this game alone, and your role in accelerating a startup and its products to market may be the X factor that results in exceptional returns.
  — Nicolas Sauvage, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• The two themes that emerged from the discussion were the necessity for films to have an X factor that can be marketed and, second, that restored classics are finding new audiences.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
• Another X factor for 2023: the effect of Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 May 2023
• The X factor is John Wood, a Republican running as an independent.
  — Jim Salter, ajc, 3 Aug. 2022
• Of all the components in the team’s late-season pitching plans, however, few are bigger than Bobby Miller — the 24-year-old phenom who could emerge as an X factor down the stretch or fade down the pecking order if rookie struggles mount.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• People from these areas have a certain little something in common, an X factor that’s hard to define, but is recognizable in specific facets of their culture.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Another X factor is that there’s more archery information available.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 June 2023
• But beneath the surface of that seeming stability, the surveys revealed how Mr. Kennedy, powered by social media and younger voters, has emerged as an unpredictable X factor in what would otherwise be a 2020 rematch.
  — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• Energy is the X factor for creating sustainable high performance.
  — Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Unfortunately, even considering that X factor, Gemma is somehow more awful in person than the already nightmarish roommate Ivy described to Joe.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• Some X factor? All that being said, actually beating Trump remains improbable.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024