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Recent Examples of variously
Prosecutors spoke with at least 60 women during their investigation, who variously alleged that the brothers had recruited women online, through friends and sometimes at bars, luring them to lavish locations in New York City, the Hamptons, Aspen, Colorado, and other destinations.
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
Mathias, a seasoned journalist who has long covered the far right, shows how activists variously confront and infiltrate such groups and reveal their members to the public.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
This idea is neatly illuminated in the seminal What Can One Do with a Paving Stone, 1971, comprising a series of black-and-white photographs mounted to canvas and showing the artist variously carrying, caressing, wrapping, and otherwise handling the titular stone.
—News Desk, Artforum, 22 Feb. 2026
Brooding over the human condition, the plays variously acknowledge death, sexism, cruelty, existential dread and the difficulty of finding common ground with your neighborhood barista.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2026
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
Mathias, a seasoned journalist who has long covered the far right, shows how activists variously confront and infiltrate such groups and reveal their members to the public.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
This idea is neatly illuminated in the seminal What Can One Do with a Paving Stone, 1971, comprising a series of black-and-white photographs mounted to canvas and showing the artist variously carrying, caressing, wrapping, and otherwise handling the titular stone.
—News Desk, Artforum, 22 Feb. 2026
Brooding over the human condition, the plays variously acknowledge death, sexism, cruelty, existential dread and the difficulty of finding common ground with your neighborhood barista.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for variously
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With the litigation settlement, there will be no power sharing among a group of diversely opinionated siblings.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Odd pieces that are too small or irregularly shaped to cut into sashimi can be easily minced for spicy poke.—
Stella Fong,
Outside,
10 Mar. 2026
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Currently, Yellowstone’s geyser watch notes that Echinus is continuing to erupt irregularly and that each eruption lasts for 3 to 5 minutes and reaches around 30 feet in height.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Those soft stripes are seen woven sporadically throughout the fluffy look, like in her tendrils and along the crown.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
8 Apr. 2026
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Over the next nine months of repairs, time started and stopped sporadically.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Always water deeply but infrequently.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Jeff Boyes, then a 14-year veteran of the department, was a SWAT team member, which was sent on calls infrequently.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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In college basketball and football, West Coast teams have all too seldom seized the biggest moments for several decades.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2026
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In natural systems, pests seldom reach outbreak levels because predators, parasitoids, and disease organisms (collectively called natural enemies) keep populations in check.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
5 Apr. 2026
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Congress rarely manages to assemble bipartisan housing legislation of any real ambition, which makes the Senate’s recent passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act a remarkable feat.—
Brad Hargreaves,
Washington Post,
7 Apr. 2026
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New technologies rarely eliminate their predecessors outright.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Variously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variously. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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