variously

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Recent Examples of variously But the treatment has been criticized since the early days as, variously, a Communist plot, forced mass medication and an industrial byproduct that causes more harm than good. Anna Clark, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2025 The care with which David Sacks tracks his days in Washington has been described to me, variously, as matching the focus of a banker avoiding New York City taxes or as a (pre-GLP-1) dieter on Weight Watchers. Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025 They were charged variously with hacking the voicemail accounts of politicians, athletes, and entertainers, and paying bribes to police officers. Nick Davies, Air Mail, 30 Aug. 2025 Other variously tart or poignant vignettes outline Mojtaba’s generally uneasy interactions with other colleagues or clients in the ex-Iranian community. Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for variously
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Adverb
  • 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
  • Today, nearly all migrants that arrive irregularly at the border are barred from seeking protection at the border and most are detained and processed for deportation.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Both moons are irregularly shaped.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • For protein products that do show an especially high heavy metal content, using them more sporadically, rather than daily, can reduce exposure.
    C. Michael White, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These restrictions are intended to be flexible and removable, yet they are only revisited sporadically.
    Peter White, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Unfortunately, movies like Real Women Have Curves come around very infrequently and rarely, and maybe that's part of the problem.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But with expensive and large electronics purchases happening infrequently for most households, many tech companies are increasingly relying on ads for recurring revenue.
    Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Lanthimos’s gaze, so exactingly attuned to human ugliness, has seldom given us lovelier things to look at.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Because Washington’s Zach Ertz has played his entire career in the NFC (previously with the Eagles, Cardinals and Lions) and the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce competes in the AFC, their teams have seldom met.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • As a defender in the English Premier League for 12 years, Higginbotham rarely had to fly.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But pay decisions are rarely black-and-white.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Variously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variously. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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