- present participle of vary.
varying
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“Atonement” wants you to do more than sympathize with them, preferring we understand the varying degrees of guilt, sorrow and anger that have led Mariam, Lou and Michael to this fraught reunion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Cricket, tennis and softball were all disrupted to varying degrees for a second day in a row.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
But biological data are conditional, inconsistent and of varying quality, and practical data sets cover only a fraction of small-molecule chemical compounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
A rather larger body, varying at need, was employed to ‘beat the bounds’, and to see that Outsiders of any kind, great or small, did not make themselves a nuisance.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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