as in various
able to be distinguished in some way from others of the same kind
variant strains of a disease variant points of view
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Recent Examples of variant
Bryan West, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
This latest album variant comes one week before the release of her upcoming 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Raytheon designed, developed, and tested the new variant in 50 days.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
This genetic variant is present in 10% of the members of an Old Order Amish community that lives in and around Adams County, Indiana.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Each variant has different aesthetics, photos and poems associated.
—Bryan West, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
This latest album variant comes one week before the release of her upcoming 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Raytheon designed, developed, and tested the new variant in 50 days.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
This genetic variant is present in 10% of the members of an Old Order Amish community that lives in and around Adams County, Indiana.
—Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for variant
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Perched on a hillside, The Hotel Hershey has family-friendly guest rooms, suites, and villas; amenities and activities like hiking trails and family s’mores roasts; a special kids check-in process; and various perks and benefits for visiting the local attractions.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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The 26-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts a male figure that transforms into tree branches housing various bird species.—
Duante Beddingfield,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Ukrainian experts claimed the device was a variation on an older model RS26, and showed me what looked like ageing valves in its circuitry at a storage facility in Kyiv.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Photos show the color variation between males and females of the new species.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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Researchers treated 12-month-old mice (similar to a 60-year-old human) with the nanoparticles and monitored the animals’ behavior and memory over several months.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Oct. 2025
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There are countless vegetable peelers available at Amazon, but this pair from Tacgea is worth recommending for several reasons.—
Clint Davis,
Southern Living,
7 Oct. 2025
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This signaled that the mutation was somewhere on the X chromosome, since females have two of those, and presumably one lacked the killer mutation.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Despite a clean mammogram and sonogram months earlier, results from a genetic test revealed that Martin had inherited the BRCA2 mutation – not from her mother, who is a breast cancer survivor herself, but from her father’s side of the family.—
Alex Ross,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Businesses also use VPNs to keep their proprietary information and data on a single server, especially if workers are spread out among different offices, according to developer platform Cloudflare.—
Arpan Lobo,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, the offensive line that has done well in the first four weeks of the season is set to look far different in Week 5, which Cowboys fans learned in the team's injury report released on Friday.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Oct. 2025
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But these past two games have been a stark deviation from that clean brand of football.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Screwing the MasterFrame 600’s graphics card brace to the lower edge of its open side was our only deviation from ordinary build practice.—
Thomas Soderstrom,
PC Magazine,
4 Oct. 2025
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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette maintains full editorial control over this article and all other coverage.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the fall equinox and has several other names.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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The mutants were identified in the 1940s by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, who were working on the effects of radiation as part of the Manhattan Project.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Confirmed are the shapeshifting Mystique, the brutish Omega Red, at least one giant mutant-hunting Sentinel, and military organization the Reavers.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Variant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variant. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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