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as in diversely
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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
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Ehrmann says the problem isn’t just limited to tilt-and-turns but comes up in all kinds of architectural projects that have irregularly shaped windows.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
21 Apr. 2026
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It is alleged that the contract was irregularly awarded and some of the police officers received bribes from the winning bidders.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Rather than dispersing plants sporadically, grouping them can significantly enhance their impact.—
Nolan Lewis,
Architectural Digest,
27 Apr. 2026
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Reblooming bigleaf hydrangeas, for example, begin blooming in early summer and continue flowering sporadically until the first frost.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Apr. 2026
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The guard frequency is used infrequently by pilots and controllers because it is reserved for emergencies.—
Clara McMichael,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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To develop deep roots, water it deeply and infrequently and let the soil dry out between waterings.—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
10 Apr. 2026
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Those tax cuts seldom were offset by increasing other types of taxes.—
David A. Lieb,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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American law doesn’t prohibit someone from being sent to another country, but immigration officials seldom did so, according to Dara Lind, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, an immigrant rights advocacy organization.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Given this, what still surprises me is how rarely art schools teach the business realities of being an artist – and how often artists cling to the belief that their art alone will make their careers.—
Magnus Resch,
ARTnews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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The wounds and humiliations of private life can rarely be redressed by law; literature offers a parallel tribunal in which those hurts are litigated and, if possible, imaginatively overcome.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Variously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variously. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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