as in various
able to be distinguished in some way from others of the same kind
variant strains of a disease variant points of view
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Recent Examples of variant
Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
What is currently the most common COVID-19 variant?
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2025
What is the most common COVID-19 variant?
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Today, Porsche debuted a new 911 variant at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 7 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
The test in Norway marked at least the third time the QUICKSINK weapon has been tested with the B-2 bomber, which dropped a 2,000-pound variant during a naval war game in Hawaii in July 2024 and used a 500-pound variant for a test in Florida.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
What is currently the most common COVID-19 variant?
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2025
What is the most common COVID-19 variant?
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Today, Porsche debuted a new 911 variant at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for variant
Adjective
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As Red Sox legends Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz and Dennis Eckersley looked on from various vantage points in the ballpark, their successors played without success.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Multiple different players could take the ball on any single snap, with various potential handoffs.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Muscles crossing multiple joints such as the hamstrings appear especially vulnerable to variations in playing surfaces, given their central role in sprinting and cutting.—
Michael Hales,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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This variation keeps your audience alert.—
Chiara Alzati,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The timing and intensity of peak foliage vary from year to year, depending on several factors, such as drought conditions, rainfall, temperature, soil content, and the types of trees, as well as cloud cover.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
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This private and public investment goes to companies pursuing several different approaches to quantum computing hardware.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Slowing down viral replication decreases the rate at which a virus can acquire new mutations.—
Deborah Fuller,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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The same mutations can be present in nonautistic people, too.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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These gains appeared across different growing conditions.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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That's because nudity can take on drastically different meanings.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As the duck progresses downstream, any tiny deviation will multiply.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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The surface of the display has an anti-glare coating and like most IPS panels offers a viewing angle of 178 degrees, both vertically and horizontally with less than 2% brightness deviation.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In order to embolden and support his organization, bin Laden often videotaped himself with messages aimed at his target audience, established training centers in Afghanistan, had an expansive funding network that included wealthy individuals, couriers, mosques and other complex ways to raise funds.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Kirk’s path to national prominence was unlike that of other MAGA icons.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Previously, the green mutant was played by Robert Mammone in the 1994 movie.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Though this was her official entry into the MCU, Couleé had been one of the inspirations for the character Darkveil, a mutant featured in the Iceman comics.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Variant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variant. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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