variegate

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She also found out that she has a rare gene mutation that causes a disease called variegate porphyria, which can cause blistering skin lesions and acute attacks that cause severe abdominal pain.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2017

In jihadi-speak, this is known as “marbling”: local groups variegate their formal ties with global movements when strategically or financially convenient.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

If the callow ends progress properly, their flexibility should variegate the Chargers' front seven down the road.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2012

To enrich his theme and variegate his texture, he abruptly interjects a two-minute "quote" from another movie and later for the same reasons rabbets in some paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wayside shrines are decked with laburnum boughs and iris blossoms plucked from the copse-woods, where spires of purple and pink orchis variegate the thin, fine grass.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes