protean
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Protean Funds, which had 500,000 Swedish Match shares, sold its entire holding this week but said it continued to hope the bid would fail "so we again can become shareholders".
From Reuters • Nov. 4, 2022
Evergrande didn't say how much it was paid for Protean, which it bought in 2019 for $58m.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2021
‘Horseplay: Or, the Fickle Mistress, a Protean Picaresque’ Trav S.D.’s script, produced by Theater Askew, both honors and derides Adah Isaacs Menken, a hopeless 19th-century actress with a genius for self-promotion.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2015
Win or lose it is time to acknowledge, however grudgingly, the diffuse but still irresistible Protean dawn.
From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012
The multitude of technical terms and formulae which has gathered round the practice of the most living and the most Protean of arts has at no time seriously interfered with the operation of creative power.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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