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Recent Examples of multifarious Part of the reason Musk’s approach in Europe is destined to fail is that the continent’s post-war institutions were explicitly designed to weather rogue assaults and multifarious crises. Paul Hockenos, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025 In the age of Instagram, Jane Birkin’s personal style often eclipsed her multifarious talents. Faye Fearon, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024 Ralph Fiennes plays the sleuth-like Cardinal Lawrence overseeing the selection of a new pope, amid icy glares, hidden agendas and multifarious intrigue. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2024 True, the Post’s concern here was focused on questions about personal transactions by Fed officials, but the modes of impairment that can threaten the public’s faith in the institution are multifarious. George Calhoun, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for multifarious
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Adjective
  • The risk to estate leakage from various risks can be reduced significantly.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Grok is trained on various sources, including posts from X, which might explain why Grok has been reported to check Elon Musk's opinion on controversial topics.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • But those satellites are controlled by myriad federal agencies, which, according to knowledgeable insiders, are too fiercely independent to coöperate smoothly.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • The term deepfake may be applied as a catch-all encompassing the myriad ways in which people can now deceive at a scale previously unimaginable.
    Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • On page 1, the details of each manifold are hazy, and many manifolds that don’t really belong have been erroneously included.
    Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2025
  • The interpersonal rivalries and longtime feuds animating the race are manifold.
    Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 12 May 2025

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“Multifarious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/multifarious. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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