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variant

[vair-ee-uhnt] / ˈvɛər i ənt /




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"As far as I'm aware this is the first known case of this variant, the T2, ejecting pilots out of it," he said, adding that the safety record for these jets is "obviously very good".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

Yesterday, the Omicron variant; today, data centers and the AI apocalypse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Although the influence of any one genetic variant was tiny, the researchers found that their combined effects were more substantial and consistent.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Another woman with the same mutation might develop an indolent variant; and yet another might not develop breast cancer at all.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The number of model variants will also be streamlined to boost profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Torcal will sit at the more affordable end of Bentley’s product portfolio, similar to the Bentayga, a larger SUV named after another Spanish mountain range that comes in combustion-engine and hybrid variants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

An international team of scientists has identified more than 1,200 genetic variants associated with the Big Five personality traits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

They had been deliberately created by humans—by the selective breeding of variants from the same ancestral cow.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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