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Recent Examples of variants
New variants include the TMP era variant and STO era variant, as well as a remaster of the TOS era variant.
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David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for variants
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Engineers, soldiers, and civilians all wore different variations, complete with modular life-support backpacks, exoskeletal plating, and transparent domed helmets that reveal the actors’ faces while maintaining a sense of airtight realism.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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Many variations on this theme exist.—
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Scientific American,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Her mini-tour, Visions of Damsels and Other Dangerous Things, has not had major deviations in the set list.—
Chandler Boese,
Kansas City Star,
4 Oct. 2025
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These temperature and precipitation deviations are based on averages (or normals) derived from data provided by government meteorological agencies, data that is updated every ten years, still the Old Farmer’s Almanac claims only 80 percent accuracy.—
Emilee Coblentz,
Outside,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The supplement helps repair DNA damage from UV exposure, lowering the chances of cancerous mutations.—
Jamie Ducharme,
Health,
26 Sep. 2025
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Darwinian evolution assumes that random mutations happen all the time.—
D. Scott Schmid,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 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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But those plans were scrapped after the Disney-Fox merger, when Marvel put mutants on hold and turned its attention to expanding its interconnected multiverse of movies and TV shows.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Variants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variants. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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