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Recent Examples of variants
Like most other variants, the symptoms of the Cicada variant are the same as those of other COVID-19 variant infections.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2026
New variants include the TMP era variant and STO era variant, as well as a remaster of the TOS era variant.
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David Jagneaux,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2026
New variants include the TMP era variant and STO era variant, as well as a remaster of the TOS era variant.
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David Jagneaux,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for variants
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Furthermore, as agentic systems find incredibly narrow advantages, the requirements needed to fulfill all those variations quickly outstrip human ability to imagine them.
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North and South Carolina span roughly 86,000 square miles, across which there are probably just as many barbecue sauce variations.
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In the book, the Senator is a man — Paul Thurman — but Yost previously confirmed that the show makes significant deviations from the source material.
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The Air units appear in an even darker black than the Fragment edition, and the only deviations in color arrive in the form of white branding on the insole and within the negative space created by the Air outsole.
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Most antibiotics are single bioactive molecules, and some can be thwarted with single mutations.
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Eventually, researchers identified mutations in a gene known as SLC13A5, revealing that both Tessa, 22, and Colton had inherited a rare recessive disorder.
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But these genes were not mutants to start with in the human embryos that Egli’s team edited.
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Hugh Jackman has fought mutants, slayed vampires and gone toe-to-toe dancing with Zac Efron.
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“Variants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variants. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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