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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

They also apply the Chica on the cheeks and about the eyes, and variegate the countenance by marking the forehead, and along the facial line, with their coomazu, a yellow clay or ochre.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 by Various

It is variegated with mingled, microtonal refractions from the window and the mirror.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

As the warm L.A. day ebbs, the home’s expansive front window frames dense, variegated foliage falling into shadow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

Hamlin's catastrophic on-field collapse and cardiac arrest on January 2, 2023 caused the unprecedented suspension of an NFL game, and brought home for a national TV audience the variegated harms of America's most popular sport.

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2024

“You’ll see variegated and bicolored varieties that may not do well in stuffy show competition, but are favorites in the garden.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

A short beach of gray-white sand led to the cliff edge, which rose, a great face of variegated rock, for fifty feet.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

And beyond the academy – is it variegating at all, the audience?

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2012

Goethe accepts the doctrine of vis centripeta, beyond the influence of which no developmental progress can be made in the way of diversifying or variegating ideal types.

From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright

The inhabitants are comparatively numerous in the villages, which rise at short intervals above their impervious walls of the lustrous green milk-bush, with its coral-shaped arms, variegating the well-hoed plains.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

Thou dull, senseless stone, with thy numberless crystals variegating and glittering on the hard resting-place that I have chosen, whence came those minerals that combined to form thee?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

Even the coves differ in the materials with which their walls are built, feldspar, porphyry, and jasper variegating their rugged features with pleasing effect.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake