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Recent Examples of variously
In June, Figure AI, a humanoid-robotics startup, released a sixty-minute video of its prototype humanoid nimbly sorting variously sized parcels, the kind of work that’s easy for humans but challenging for machines.
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James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
It’s been variously associated with phone addiction, disinformation, and zombie-like hyper-superficiality.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
In 1993, Crumb and I collaborated on a book variously known as Kafka for Beginners, Introducing Kafka, or just plain Kafka, which has since been translated into about 20 languages.
—David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
In this sense, American politics may come to resemble Ukraine’s in the 1990s and early 2000s, which oscillated between democracy and competitive authoritarianism as pro-European or pro-Russian forces variously controlled the executive branch.
—Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025
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James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
It’s been variously associated with phone addiction, disinformation, and zombie-like hyper-superficiality.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
In 1993, Crumb and I collaborated on a book variously known as Kafka for Beginners, Introducing Kafka, or just plain Kafka, which has since been translated into about 20 languages.
—David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
In this sense, American politics may come to resemble Ukraine’s in the 1990s and early 2000s, which oscillated between democracy and competitive authoritarianism as pro-European or pro-Russian forces variously controlled the executive branch.
—Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025
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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
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Two months later, her heart began to beat irregularly.—
Stephanie Armour,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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Two months later, her heart began to beat irregularly.—
Stephanie Armour,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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State programs aimed at helping communities pay for protections against predators such as installing improved fencing or training in nonlethal methods of controlling them have only been funded sporadically.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Although the sun is thought to have reached solar maximum — the peak of its 11-year activity cycle — in late 2024, the years immediately following often remain volatile, with strong Northern Lights expected sporadically throughout 2026.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The city doesn’t have snow plows to clear roads given how infrequently winter weather events occur each year.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Jan. 2026
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The challenge is that NFG options trade very infrequently, and the bid/ask spread is consequently quite wide, so to sell calls an investor needs to have a sense of what the price should be.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2026
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As Sam Stolton reports, the development could — if Google is eventually found to be non-compliant with the rules — pave the way for potential fines as high as 10% of global annual sales, though Brussels regulators seldom levies the maximum penalties.—
Suzanne Lynch,
Bloomberg,
27 Jan. 2026
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Feldman has seldom sounded so companionable.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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But the White House is also risking a wider fracture over an issue that rarely polarizes the GOP.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Jan. 2026
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Quarterly results rarely show depletion.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Variously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variously. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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