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variant

[vair-ee-uhnt] / ˈvɛər i ənt /




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The U.S. government is expected to keep Falcon busy, with flights on the rocket and its larger variant potentially extending into the early 2030s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"The fact this outbreak variant was able to spread to so many young people was due to the social environment, a place where lots of close social mixing takes place."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“The Seeker variant, combined with the increased use of jet-powered Geran series is proving far more effective than previous models,” said Darren DelSignore, general manager at DroneSec.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The variant with 256GB of storage, meanwhile, costs £889.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

This variant of Holmberg’s Mistake dates back to the Pilgrims themselves, who ascribed the lack of effective native resistance to the will of God.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

This technique examines the portions of DNA that contain instructions for making proteins, allowing scientists to search across thousands of genes for unusual variants shared by affected individuals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Google DeepMind on Tuesday introduced the AlphaGenome Atlas, a dataset of predictions for the effects of every possible single-letter change across the human genome—roughly 9 billion variants in total.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Just as an atlas is a collection of maps, linking together features of the land like altitude and location, AlphaGenome Atlas charts the molecular effects of DNA variants across the genome.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

For example, common genetic variants associated with openness to experience were linked to a greater likelihood that someone would move to a more cosmopolitan neighborhood.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

The two populations now evolve independently, à la Darwin—until particular gene variants are selected in the two sites that become biologically incompatible.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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