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variant

[vair-ee-uhnt] / ˈvɛər i ənt /




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The Roadster’s Thrust variant is said to hit 0 to 60 miles an hour in less than a second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“However, Public Health is awaiting subsequent variant testing, which can take several weeks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The narrow-body aircraft is the latest variant of Boeing’s bestselling passenger jet and a major driver of company revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 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

Only one allele had asserted itself in the hybrid, forcing the other variant trait to vanish.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Roadster’s Thrust and Rocket variants contain cold-gas thrusters, small rockets that release gas to propel the vehicle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Like hands, all amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the proteins in the body's cells.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Researchers found that genetic variants associated with naturally higher levels of GLP-1 receptor proteins were more common in men with androgenetic alopecia.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 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

Like Mendel, Morgan began by identifying heritable traits—visible variants that he could track over generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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