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as in assortments
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
every kitchen has a drawer crammed with a variety of things for which there just doesn't seem to be any other place
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as in types
a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common
I prefer movies of the horror variety
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Recent Examples of varieties
Starbucks Coffee Pods Restock your coffee bar with Starbucks K-Cup Coffee Pods in Pike Place, Sumatra, and French Roast varieties.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026
But when portions are the same, calories, fiber, and micronutrients are very similar between different oatmeal varieties.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 28 Jan. 2026
Nine varieties make up 93% of the total wine-grape plantings in California.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
There are more than 800 different varieties of camellias throughout the park, ranging from white to deep red solid flowers to multi-colored petals with spots and speckles.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2026
As a feeder for larger varieties of fish, herring is naturally small and low in mercury.
—Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 27 Jan. 2026
Horacek will demonstrate the how to prune roses, tools needed and this year’s new varieties of roses.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
Notably, those potentially deadly varieties are easily confused for safe-to-eat mushrooms – prompting the caution from health officials against foraging.
—Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
However, many varieties are much more compact, such as 'Woodwardii' (shown here) that grows to a 4- to 5-foot globe, and ‘Tater Tot,’ which forms a rounded uniform ball 2–3 feet tall and 3–4 feet wide at maturity.
—Daniel Scott, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2026
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026
But when portions are the same, calories, fiber, and micronutrients are very similar between different oatmeal varieties.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 28 Jan. 2026
Nine varieties make up 93% of the total wine-grape plantings in California.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
There are more than 800 different varieties of camellias throughout the park, ranging from white to deep red solid flowers to multi-colored petals with spots and speckles.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2026
As a feeder for larger varieties of fish, herring is naturally small and low in mercury.
—Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 27 Jan. 2026
Horacek will demonstrate the how to prune roses, tools needed and this year’s new varieties of roses.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
Notably, those potentially deadly varieties are easily confused for safe-to-eat mushrooms – prompting the caution from health officials against foraging.
—Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
However, many varieties are much more compact, such as 'Woodwardii' (shown here) that grows to a 4- to 5-foot globe, and ‘Tater Tot,’ which forms a rounded uniform ball 2–3 feet tall and 3–4 feet wide at maturity.
—Daniel Scott, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for varieties
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Ulta Beauty, Target and Walmart are leaning into wellness, each kicking off 2026 with sweeping additions to their respective assortments and, in the case of Ulta, a wellness shop-in-shop redesign.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
27 Jan. 2026
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This is reshaping assortments, replenishment, staffing, and storytelling in real time.—
Kevin Rozario,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Aside from including two types of hyaluronic acid, Japanese miru seaweed, volcanic marine ferment, and snow mushrooms, all of which boast anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 2026
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For both order types, groceries will be bagged and customers will be charged a small fee for the bags used.—
Emery Glover,
Des Moines Register,
29 Jan. 2026
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While further details on how the segment will work were not immediately available, awards shows often have multi-artist performances delivered as tight medleys, although eight is a lot.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2026
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Here, she's seen performing on her variety show, which featured a number of famous guests and her own musical medleys.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Materials of all kinds, including handwritten and typewritten pages and microfilm, are kept in neat rows of archival boxes, some stacked six shelves high.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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Curved Settees Curved settees of all kinds were fixtures of living rooms of decades past.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2026
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The result also spotlights conference championships’ awkward fit in the current system, particularly given the fact that conference expansion has led to jumbles atop each league’s standings.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Its relatively modest 26 prompts ask readers to expand their stacks into new genres.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
13 Jan. 2026
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Yahoo Media Group and The Nonfiction Hotlist have announced a partnership that will see Yahoo promote and distribute 20 short docs across a variety of genres to a global audience.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
13 Jan. 2026
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Those intensive collages implied, and even staged, his successive incarnations across six decades of musical self-reinvention.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Jangly guitars and vaporwave sample collages shiver and burst, while Ritchie raps with an improvisational sensibility.—
Benny Sun,
Pitchfork,
29 Jan. 2026
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Yet the stars-and-stripes weren’t the only flags flying high that night.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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While leopard print has long been everywhere, and cow and deer print are experiencing somewhat of a revival, tiger stripes feel much more maligned.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Varieties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/varieties. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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