as in frictions
a lack of agreement or harmony
persistent variance within the rock band eventually caused it to break up
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Recent Examples of variances
While some passwords are bad the world over, there are regional variances.
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Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Commissioners were divided over whether granting these variances would help welcome a popular new business or cause traffic and safety concerns along one of the city’s main north-south thoroughfares.
—Marie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Should also be aware initial estimates are preliminary numbers subject to wide variances with biases that can be manipulated.
—Phillip Molnar, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Stratus clouds are gray layers, sometimes with variances in their luminescence.
—Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
But variances are meant to be rare and temporary, not a substitute for compliance.
—Darren MacK, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Commissioners were divided over whether granting these variances would help welcome a popular new business or cause traffic and safety concerns along one of the city’s main north-south thoroughfares.
—Marie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Should also be aware initial estimates are preliminary numbers subject to wide variances with biases that can be manipulated.
—Phillip Molnar, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Stratus clouds are gray layers, sometimes with variances in their luminescence.
—Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025
But variances are meant to be rare and temporary, not a substitute for compliance.
—Darren MacK, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for variances
Noun
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Subscribe Technological sovereignty is a topic that has been gaining momentum in the last year or so as geopolitical frictions have forced companies to assess their reliance on foreign technologies.—
Ryan Browne,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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Typing, speaking, and even gesturing are frictions that slow us down.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Your dedicated Slack channels, private discords and endless Reddit threads.—
April Uchitel,
Flow Space,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The multibillion-dollar deal brings an end to legal conflicts that captured global attention and cements a clear future for the companies at the center of American and international news.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2025
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The laboratory also stressed the need for resilience against electronic warfare, particularly GPS jamming and spoofing, which have become common tactics in modern conflicts.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This time, though, the schisms between the CDC and the states and professional societies go far beyond the timing of an additional dose of vaccine.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
5 Sep. 2025
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Leicester were extremely dysfunctional in that 2022-23 campaign, with schisms in their midfield that were exploited by opponents.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2025
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Players are being paid directly by their schools, ADs are looking for alternative sources of revenue and recruits are launching bidding wars.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Among the reasons the name was chosen, according to historians, was to signal that the United States prioritized preventing wars in the post-World War II nuclear age.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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More pragmatism means not widening class divisions by cutting Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding to give tax breaks to oligarchs.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Eliécer Camacho Jiménez, former general of the Colombian National Police (the organization that works closely with the DEA on combatting drug trafficking in Colombia), told me there are growing divisions within Maduro's circles.—
Kristina Foltz,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite two dissents calling for lower rates, the FOMC’s July meeting minutes do not imply that a majority of policymakers were on the cusp of an interest rate cut.—
Simon Moore,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
21 Aug. 2025
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The 49ers have a recent history of tense contract disputes with receivers, going through one with Deebo Samuel in 2022 and Aiyuk last year.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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So far, 75 deals have been re-submitted after initially being denied, and none of the disputes has so far gone to arbitration.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Variances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variances. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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