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Eventually, MS can cause permanent damage to the nerve fibers, and symptoms vary from person to person, depending on the location and severity of the damage in the nervous system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Since individual expenses for debt repayment, healthcare and insurance can vary considerably, these categories are not included.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The injuries vary in severity, but they already have the potential to upend the playoff race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Another major finding from caffeine research is that responses vary considerably from person to person.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
There are two possibilities, although the details associated with them may vary.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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Each of the tattoos varies in style, not unlike the distinct personalities in the book’s fictional MFA cohort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
This would require three consecutive days of temperatures above a threshold which varies from 25C in Scotland and Northern Ireland to 28C in the London area.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
What started as a small summer-solstice gathering on San Francisco’s Baker Beach in 1986 now draws typically 70,000 festival-goers, although that number varies each year.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
In other words, they asked whether the effect varies depending on the direction in which it is measured.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
As it turns out, the average number of items answered on that questionnaire varies from country to country.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The particular mixture and proportions of these compounds varied from one cat to another, yet remained relatively consistent within the same animal.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
First, I asked my Facebook friends about their experiences with pet insurance — and their responses varied wildly:
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The roles of Farnace, Sifare and Arbate were originally written for castrati; the music for this all-high-voice cast proved varied enough that one didn’t miss the bass notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The generational distance that has muffled the pain of 2001 is also seen in California’s varied educational approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The tragedy opens with a scene showing a rich and varied population of large animals, without any trace of humans.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The new findings suggest engineers might be able to create different or improved behaviors by deliberately varying the shapes, sizes, orientations, and physical properties of those units.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
That is just one example; the strategy has varying structures and rules that set the path of potential outcomes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
In her meeting with social media companies, she said she found "wildly varying standards" from them on doxxing material.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
But as the general election approaches, both candidates are diminishing the president’s presence in their messaging by varying degrees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
One way that a composer keeps a piece of music interesting is by varying how strongly the end of each phrase sounds like "the end."
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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