protean
Example Sentences
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He was one of America's most Janus-faced leaders, a protean figure who could sincerely shift from the pragmatic reformer to the vengeful autocrat without any apparent qualms.
From Salon
The book makes it clear that Islam is a protean force in Egyptian society, capable of becoming whatever its adherents want to make of it.
From Seattle Times
As the world’s third-largest economy, after the United States and China, it was able to spend the billions needed to orchestrate these protean games, with their mounting costs and changing demands.
From Seattle Times
In the current phase of his dizzyingly protean career, Soderbergh is both an intrepid genre filmmaker and an impassioned practitioner of the cinema of ideas.
From New York Times
The disease is, and always has been, protean in its manifestations.
From New York Times
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