variation
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“This is a variation of a trend we have been tracking for more than a year,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
The review found that the support provided by PAs can "vary greatly from place to place" with a "huge variation" in quality of practice.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Fossilized remains of long-extinct species can show features well outside the range of variation we see in living species," Wright said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
“It’s sort of a variation on what we already know,” says Morris of learning to work the projector.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The study of variation and dip evidently depended on collaboration between navigators and intellectuals, but so did the whole science of cartography.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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However, it also noted that periods of heavy rain or drought could indirectly affect fault zones, pointing to a study that suggested that rates of micro-quakes may undergo small variations related to rainfall patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
It's a story that has long featured the New York property tycoon as the hero, with variations on him taking workers down to Ground Zero.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Charting the new variations of a bountiful—and bankable—American style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
While completing his graduate work at Caltech, Berne developed a model that uses subtle variations in gravity to estimate the internal structure of a planetary body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
When I look behind me, I see my customized room decked out in variations of the Warcross logo.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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