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  • Highly empathetic people are more likely to have a gene variation associated with trust and caring.
  • Over the years there have been many variations of the Snickers Bar such as the Snickers Almond bar and Snickers Ice Cream bar.
    variations = versions (things that are different than others of their type)
  • I've heard three variations of that joke.
  • Every other sin is a variation of theft.   (source)
    variation = something that is different than others of its type
  • While we were in Midland, Mom painted dozens of variations and studies of the Joshua tree.   (source)
    variations = things that are different than others of their type
  • It was a sweltering afternoon, but Roy had resigned himself to the fact that there was no change of seasons in South Florida, only mild variations of summer.   (source)
    variations = versions
  • I stopped for a long time to let my nerves settle, then leaned back from my tools and stared up at the face above, searching for a hint of solid ice, for some variation in the underlying rock strata, for anything that would allow passage over the frosted slabs.   (source)
    variation = something different than the rest
  • A breeze would blow them over, and the world is filled with more than breezes: diseases and disasters, monsters and pain in a thousand variations.   (source)
    variations = versions
  • Over the next century this tune and its variations would be deployed in a succession of mostly cheesy movies, typically as an accompaniment to the sinuous emergence of a cobra from a basket.   (source)
    variations = versions or alternate forms
  • The music went on and on, minute after minute, with astonishing variations, never once repeating itself, almost as though the bird were deliberately showing off its virtuosity.   (source)
    variations = changes in form
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  • There are some complex maze variations I'd like him to learn to be sure he keeps in shape.   (source)
    variations = things that are different than others of their type
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  • When all other factors are the same, WalletHub's study found an average of a 65% variation in the cost of auto insurance depending upon whether the insured has excellent credit or no credit history.
  • They studied regional language variation by analyzing Twitter data.
  • The variation in medical prices can be shocking.
  • This one was thick, this one smooth, this one bearded with a hooked nose and narrow chin. ... It made me dizzy to realize that this was but a fraction of a fraction of all the men the world had bred. How could such variation endure, such endless iteration of minds and faces?   (source)
    variation = differences
  • I'm not good with change right now I can't even yet make a variation in my mile running course.   (source)
    variation = change
  • He regards my present trouble as a variation in form of the troubles which led me to come abroad.   (source)
  • With many variations, suggested by the nature of his building materials, diversity of climate, and a different mode of social life, Governor Bellingham had planned his new habitation after the residences of gentlemen of fair estate in his native land.   (source)
    variations = differences
  • "How the pleasing plague had stolen on him" he could not say; and before he had expressed the same sentiment with a little variation of words three times over, his sister eagerly interrupted him with, "Ah, my dear Henry, and this is what took you to London!"   (source)
    variation = difference
  • She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.   (source)
  • My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history.   (source)
    variations = changes
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  • Little in mathematics beyond the elementary level of calculus of variations, and nothing at all about Banach algebra or Riemannian manifolds.   (source)
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  • "They call this one The Goldberg Variation," he said when he returned.†   (source)
  • Then you must know that unlike the local variations we observe in different parts of the universe, the overall fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background is correlated with the expansion of the universe.†   (source)
  • Apparently, he was walking down the hallway when he happened to hear a Mozart Variation emanating from the ballroom.†   (source)
  • Later I even borrowed Nikki's clothes to show some further variation, thinking that nobody would notice the zippers at the bottoms of the jeans or the way the hips hugged a little tight.†   (source)
  • I went through a dozen versions of what it was going to be like on the rescue ship, variations on the theme of sweet reunion.†   (source)
  • I guess the question I get asked the most, in a lot of strange variations, is: "What's wrong with you?"†   (source)
  • No shapes, no shadows, no variation, nothing.†   (source)
  • An idea was beginning to take shape in my mind, a variation of my city-hopping weekends.†   (source)
  • Half an hour later, hav-ing tried many more variations of his request to see what Malfoy was up to, the wall was just as doorless as ever.†   (source)
  • Once at the security level, Nedry tried three variations: keycheck off safety off sl off "He's trying to turn off the safety systems," Wu said.†   (source)
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  • Each new find seems only a variation of the last: the triangle closes in, each segment shrinking simultaneously, the vertices growing closer, until they are reduced to a single point, a barn or a cottage or a factory basement or some disgusting encampment in the ice.†   (source)
  • If one variation doesn't work, try a different one.†   (source)
  • A variation of one degree was not tolerated.†   (source)
  • Jimmy, Jimmy — do Evil Dad/ The other kids had lots of variations and routines to suggest, filched from the private lives of their own parental units.†   (source)
  • Most of the houses seem fairly new and are variations of the same few designs.†   (source)
  • People call it the 'horrible tragedy' or some variation on that.†   (source)
  • With minor variations, it always went like this: I'm crouched in the corner of my grandfather's bedroom, amber dusk-light retreating from the windows, pointing a pink plastic BB rifle at the door.†   (source)
  • They had been asking each other variations of the same thing for weeks.†   (source)
  • Variations in tone are easier to fudge.†   (source)
  • This "thought" is then repeated with small variations (e.g., Where's the food?†   (source)
  • In one more verse, surely they will have captured the melody, as it's simple and repeats four times with little variation.†   (source)
  • The coughing was routine, and she had tuned her hearing to pick up variations in it.†   (source)
  • Strobe variation, I would guess.†   (source)
  • He gives me every variation of smile that there is and I have to kiss his smiling lips.†   (source)
  • We saw the two institutions as variations on each other,doubtless the Birchers did not see it this way.†   (source)
  • There are a few different specific rifles and variations in service with the U.S. military and other armies around the world.†   (source)
  • There are no predators. the seasonal variations are minimal and the food supply almost certainly remains stable.†   (source)
  • The plays were all new to him, and in a code foreign to him, and on each play there were a mind-numbing number of variations.†   (source)
  • She never actually cussed, but her variations were just as good.†   (source)
  • And eating is eating, with some slight variations of table manners.†   (source)
  • Nothing surprised her anymore, though the variation in customers and their businesses was dizzying.†   (source)
  • She had concocted all kinds of variations.†   (source)
  • Our next attempt at measuring thrust was a variation on the theme, this time using Mom's bathroom scale.†   (source)
  • They shake hands, a standard plain old Euro-shake, no fancy variations.†   (source)
  • Then one night, a variation of the dream: I'm in front of a house situated in a clearing among tall, moss-infested trees.†   (source)
  • They all lived variations of Adel's own life.†   (source)
  • "Every one of them began with some variation of, 'Don't worry about me, Father, for I am alive and well and happier than I've ever been….'†   (source)
  • To this day, every religion on earth shouted out a variation of his name.†   (source)
  • Or, as a variation on this same exercise, I may attempt to think of three witticisms based on the events of the past hour.†   (source)
  • The essay questions were fairly predictable-our English teacher had told us what to expect-and I'd already worked on a couple of variations in class as homework.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, as if on cue, comets and meteor showers would tumble through the starry ranks, adding variation to the flowing dance.†   (source)
  • So few options, and yet an infinite number of variations.†   (source)
  • The strings are also impossibly close together, so that fingering one without pawing others is a variation of pick-up sticks.†   (source)
  • There wasn't much variation among the rooms in the Institute, Clary thought, closing the door behind her, but at least there was privacy.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza did not understand what she meant until the following Monday when, from the bench in the little park, he saw the same scene with one variation: when Aunt Escolastica went into the house, Fermina Daza stood up and then sat in the other chair.†   (source)
  • What's the variation?" the Duke asked.†   (source)
  • I must have heard that statement, or variations of it, a hundred times.†   (source)
  • There are variations possible but this is the basic format.†   (source)
  • Nature produces an enormous breadth of variation.†   (source)
  • Also they spoke different variations of English, different Englishes, and so when Nadia gave voice to an idea or opinion among them, she did not need to fear that her views could not be comprehended, for her English was like theirs, one among many.†   (source)
  • I've heard variations on that theme.†   (source)
  • Being the moon god, I appreciate variation.†   (source)
  • Then Oromis taught Eragon the wording of the spell and several variations on it.†   (source)
  • Most of the people walking the halls wear variations of the same uniform—it comes in dark blue or dull green, and some of them wear the jackets or jumpsuits or sweatshirts open, revealing T-shirts of a wide variety of colors, some with pictures drawn on them.†   (source)
  • That, with variations, was the customary response, however, one woman, a schoolteacher, observed, "Feeling wouldn't run half so high if this had happened to anyone except the Clutters.†   (source)
  • There were dozens of variations on a theme.†   (source)
  • But there were so many variations to it—the Latin one, the R&B one, the funk shingaling—it was hard not to mix them up.†   (source)
  • In their previous games, the Fugees, and especially the Under 13s, had managed practically every illegal variation of throw-in form imaginable: picking up a foot, throwing the ball from the side of their head, and even casually heaving it into play with the motion approximating a chest pass in basketball.†   (source)
  • No matter how I combined his nose and my eyes or my mouth and his cheeks, every variation looked awful in my head.†   (source)
  • There was much more variation.†   (source)
  • She put all her quick, young mind and avid soul into the struggle to receive, though piercingly aware every instant of the difference between her attire and that of the women who had bidden her there, noting acutely variations between their language and hers, their voices, their gestures and hers.†   (source)
  • No variations.†   (source)
  • It was a variation in the wash of the river beside us.†   (source)
  • Distortions of that distance or lateral movement of the weights indicated variations in the local gravitational field.†   (source)
  • Or some starker variation thereof.†   (source)
  • Some also teach variations of faith-healing or claim that Jesus will protect its followers from AIDS.†   (source)
  • The force is applied by motors, and there is a built-in safety allowance for variations in the mass of the riders.†   (source)
  • So we're all role models; the only variation is what kind of role models we choose to be: good or bad.†   (source)
  • "Right, only here we believe it's a variation on that tactic.†   (source)
  • Variations on such encounters produced varieties of tortured etiquette.†   (source)
  • At first he just wrote variations on Russian folk songs mixed with Jewish riffs.†   (source)
  • I throw on one of the eight variations of tight black T-shirts I own and a pair of jeans and head out.†   (source)
  • There was a constant stream of them going up the Hill, carrying hundreds of polite variations on _Thank you, I shall certainly come.†   (source)
  • "That same phrase, in one variation or another, is on every map, and," he concluded, "in every language."†   (source)
  • And no doubt it will all happen again, over and over with different faces and names, variations on the same theme.†   (source)
  • Surely you attribute great degrees and variations to goodness.†   (source)
  • Variations of this conversation were endless, and I listened to them every day.†   (source)
  • Then he could do variations with it.†   (source)
  • Her dreams recurred like themes and variations or television series.†   (source)
  • If only I could say, "Look, they've played a trick on us, the same old trick with new variations-let's stop running and respect and love one another …."†   (source)
  • And it was Hull, later, who reported Montresor's account of Hale's last words as he was about to be executed : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country," which was a variation on another then-famous line from the play Cato.†   (source)
  • You might say it's a variation on the theme.†   (source)
  • Mathematics was actually a logical puzzle with endless variations—riddles that could be solved.†   (source)
  • The three neatly typed sentences initially impressed him as a singularly cruel variation on the usual paranoid shriek: I have been trying to reach you, Joe.†   (source)
  • Mattie had gone through the same motions at least once in her life, and Etta must have known a dozen variations to it that were a mystery to her.†   (source)
  • A number of times when I would go over to hang out with Kevin, Mr. Albers would suggest some new exercise, or some variation on one I was already doing, for me to try.†   (source)
  • I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others.†   (source)
  • I have had variations of the same dream since we immigrated to America.†   (source)
  • This was why he hated Lillian Rearden, thought Taggart: she knew the game, but she played it with unexpected variations of her own.†   (source)
  • She opened her mouth, prepared to give him a variation on the same theme.†   (source)
  • You know, I think there's variations of speaking American.†   (source)
  • Or did it all happen by ordination, by the slight chance of Being, that Veronica and the rest of us have actually one strain of life, and one strain only, and that the seeming variations are but particular contours, the everyday adornments?†   (source)
  • STRASSNITZKY WAS capable of great variation.†   (source)
  • And these variations won't correspond with the growth of our population, which is the general measure of how much money the government will need.†   (source)
  • A variation on the old Merry Widow.†   (source)
  • Despite all the variations in sounds, what we've discovered over the years is that if a duck whistles, then you use a whistle to duplicate the sound.†   (source)
  • Don't repeat, nor any variation.†   (source)
  • A fabber can produce variation easily.†   (source)
  • I thought no more about this variation until sometime later when a human shout made me turn around.†   (source)
  • Variations: "Anyone who wanted to could kick this door in."†   (source)
  • He stood on the edge of the rimrock and looked down below: the canyons and valleys were thick powdery black; their variations of height and depth were marked by a thinner black color.†   (source)
  • Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.†   (source)
  • Then, I was told about the subtle color variations in the different ASA ratings, and the strobe flash unit as well as bracketing exposures and the advantages and disadvantages of motor drives.†   (source)
  • From "Dream Variation" Langston Hughes October 28, 1959 For years the idea had haunted me, and that night it returned more insistently than ever.†   (source)
  • He might have looked at a lot of versions, to develop a feel for the spirit of the play, not necessarily the words, and that's how he came across your paperback there, with the variation in it.†   (source)
  • I said fidelity would become you more, to use an elegant variation.†   (source)
  • Then processes of change and variation took place in the organisms, so that one kind became different from all others.†   (source)
  • Perhaps his physiology was playing some other variation of the game than the one I had guessed at It had been so neat, though.†   (source)
  • Yamacraw basketball had several variations and modifications.†   (source)
  • Over the head of the bed hung an obscene variation on the Buddha.†   (source)
  • (OPERATIONS, EXPRESSIONS, FACTORS, FRACTIONS, POWERS, EXPONENTS, RADICALS, IDENTITIES, EQUATIONS, PROGRESSIONS, VARIATIONS, PERMUTATIONS, DETERMINANTS, AND SOLUTIONS) EFFACE.†   (source)
  • She demonstrated to him, unanswerably, that they could never expect to get out of the slough they were in, if they continued as they were: a hundred pounds more, fifty pounds less, according to the variations of weather and the prices, would be all the difference they could anticipate.†   (source)
  • The guards seemed to relish concocting variations of their denials.†   (source)
  • It was a variation on the shared-gaze exercises, and all of the dogs knew how it worked.†   (source)
  • Ugliness, on the other hand, had infinite variation.†   (source)
  • Darwin believed that the giraffe's long neck was the result of a variation.†   (source)
  • Stacks and stacks of T-shirts and hats that say Maui, or Aloha, or some variation of that.†   (source)
  • At the hotel Farmer got to do variations of hortitorture.†   (source)
  • A variation in a glowglobe's brilliance, a deceptive shadow.†   (source)
  • He looked at it again and, with self-conscious precision, corrected himself: "Variations."†   (source)
  • Neo-Darwinism supplemented this by showing a clear cause of just that particular variation.†   (source)
  • Did Darwin have anything to say about how such random variations arose?†   (source)
  • The essence of Darwin's theory was the utterly random variations which had finally produced Man.†   (source)
  • This time, she heard the subtle variations he made.†   (source)
  • Lavier was a variation of that method, that's all.†   (source)
  • What Clausen does is simply a variation on what people have been doing for hundreds of years.†   (source)
  • At least, it's a larger variation on that idea.†   (source)
  • My nickname in middle school was Her Majesty Marika and a dozen variations of the same.†   (source)
  • With a few variations, they went something like this: Macon: What's up?†   (source)
  • PRINTED SCORES ARE SUMMATIONS OF TEST AND INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS.†   (source)
  • More voices joined the unearthly song, embroidering the original theme with a hundred variations.†   (source)
  • Fashionable women had taken to wearing a variation of his familiar bearskin hat.†   (source)
  • Alan had been taught a dozen variations by his father, and he could play well.†   (source)
  • "Ours was a variation," said the Monk, sitting down wearily.†   (source)
  • And there aren't really major regional variations.†   (source)
  • It's a variation of what Webb told you!'†   (source)
  • Why do mechanical variations in rhythm and tone speak the language of the heart?†   (source)
  • Virtually all suicides on the islands, in fact, are identical variations on Sima's story.†   (source)
  • No, I really don't think that regional variations are gonna disappear.†   (source)
  • It was this mapping which disclosed activity variations within an otherwise uniform structure.†   (source)
  • I've probably written a hundred variations of it so far, but it's still not right.†   (source)
  • Tell them the truth, at least a variation of it, and I think you may even get a bonus.†   (source)
  • Even Cactus's first words were a minor variation of those he had used five years ago.†   (source)
  • And, two, it's a classic trap with a couple of hundred variations.†   (source)
  • Variations in gravity are simply a function of intervening mass.†   (source)
  • I can feel the slightest variation in the air, and if I do, we're all dead.†   (source)
  • It would go on for the better part of a minute; Conklin had heard too many variations before.†   (source)
  • And always there was the same reply, or a variation of it, spoken in a clipped British accent.†   (source)
  • For sounding like me, even using a variation of the words I've used.†   (source)
  • 'But certainly a variation,'insisted d'Anjou.†   (source)
  • Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree.†   (source)
  • Oh God, I thought, here comes the second variation on the sacrosanct theme of Henry Piedmont.†   (source)
  • Maybe his father had something to do with Will's distaste for either change or variation.†   (source)
  • You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.†   (source)
  • We must look good from a distance: picturesque, like Dutch milkmaids on a wallpaper frieze, like a shelf full of period-costume ceramic salt and pepper shakers, like a flotilla of swans or anything that repeats itself with at least minimum grace and without variation.†   (source)
  • She was going through all the nuts and bolts of how you did it, what went in where, the different variations, like this was still Geography.†   (source)
  • The old "Pig" nickname for the 60 survives, which leads a lot of 60 gunners to be called Pigs, or a creative variation; in our platoon, a friend of mine named Bob got tagged with it.†   (source)
  • With just the tiniest, seemingly random variations from year to year, the * I'm grateful to Ben Alamar for both his thoughts on this subject and for doing most of the actual work.†   (source)
  • Philosophical systems that are supposed to be greatly opposed to one another both seem to be saying something very close to what Phaedrus thought, with minor variations.†   (source)
  • Every writer can make these modifications in his or her use of the seasons, and the variation produced keeps seasonal symbolism fresh and interesting.†   (source)
  • He says he spent some time at the Central Library earlier in the day but couldn't find the desired Brahms double concerto, Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Mendelssohn's Third and Fourth Symphonies, Sibelius's Symphony No. 2, and Strauss's Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • Would someone trying to disappear change their name completely, or would they feel safer with the same initials, with a name like this—different enough to throw off any casual pursuers, but allowing her to use a slight variation on her old signature?†   (source)
  • Once in a while it briefly stopped at the stern bench, but otherwise every lap was identical to the previous one, with no variations in movement, in speed, in the pitch or the volume of the yipping, in the counter-clockwise direction of travel.†   (source)
  • My arena of literal expression offered four avenues to the topic of elimination, two references to human anatomy, one request for divine imprecation, one standard description of or request for coitus, and a coital variation which was no longer an option for me since my mother was deeeased.†   (source)
  • Thus, even as the Count was brushing his teeth, Viktor Stepanovich was setting aside an arrangement that he had been working on for his orchestra in order to sort through the Goldberg Variations—in search of one that might be just right for Sofia.†   (source)
  • Harry tried every variation of "I need to see what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you" that he could think of for a whole hour, at the end of which he was forced to concede that Hermione might have had a point: The room simply did not want to open for him.†   (source)
  • It wasn't easy, even though I'd been to visit my grandfather countless times growing up, because each house looked like the next: squat and boxy with minor variations, trimmed with aluminum siding or dark seventies wood, or fronted by plaster colonnades that seemed almost delusionally aspirational.†   (source)
  • He turned out to be excellent at Nanotech Biochem, and together he and Jimmy worked on their single-molecular-layer splicing project, managing to produce the required purple nematode using the colour-coder from a primitive seaweed — before schedule, and with no alarming variations.†   (source)
  • But she learned that there were Shiite and Sunni interpretations of the Qur'an, and within any mosque there were the same variations in faith and commitment as there were in any church.†   (source)
  • I can see Lyme's frustration building because so many variations of this plan have already failed, so many of her soldiers have been lost.†   (source)
  • So many times in my life I've felt as though looking at Em is like seeing another variation of myself, but I don't feel that way now.†   (source)
  • It involved a lot of backflips, a pyramid, and a complicated formation that was supposed to result in us all lying down in various positions to form a tiger (our mascot) but instead ended up looking like some variation of a sloth without a head.†   (source)
  • I wonder if there could be variations on the color scheme, to take into account those who might be known associates of a criminal, even if they haven't personally been arrested or convicted yet.†   (source)
  • They'll play Twelve Variations on "Fin Madchen oder Weibchen," Six Variations on an Original Theme in F Major, Sonata in G minor for Piano and Cello, Seven Variations on "Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fahlen" and Sonata in D major for Piano and Cello.†   (source)
  • But the actual beach, the one he and the corporals gazed on now, was no more than a variation on all that had gone before: there was a rout, and this was its terminus.†   (source)
  • More specifically, we have in mind the people who feed fishhooks to the otters, razors to the bears, apples with small nails in them to the elephants and hardware variations on the theme: ballpoint pens, paper clips, safety pins, rubber bands, combs, coffee spoons, horseshoes, pieces of broken glass, rings, brooches and other jewellery (and not just cheap plastic bangles: gold wedding bands, too), drinking straws, plastic cutlery, ping-pong balls, tennis balls and so on.†   (source)
  • Think about it we should, though, since once we know the pattern is in play, we can start looking at variation and nuance.†   (source)
  • There are little variations here and there: the way they come around corners, for example, and the way they cover buddies during an operation.†   (source)
  • Whoever they were, it was alarming to see them standing there, at least two dozen of them, their robes variations on red and black and their high foreheads glowing from the red light above.†   (source)
  • Now and then we do that with an Aberration, simply to gather additional data and watch for variation.†   (source)
  • SANDTIDE: idiomatic for a dust tide: the variation in level within certain dust-filled basins on Arrakis due to gravitational effects of sun and satellites.†   (source)
  • The physics team had planted chronotropic sensors at various points along the paths and walkways between the Tombs, both to alert the monitors to variations of the tides and to warn the visitors.†   (source)
  • Effectiveness limited by variations in shield settings and relative motion between target and projectile.†   (source)
  • The sonnet has been a big part of English poetry since the 1500s, and there are a few major types of sonnet and myriad variations.†   (source)
  • There was no confusion in her mind: these too-vivid, un— 1 trustworthy impressions, her self-doubt, the intrusive visual clarity and eerie differences that had wrapped themselves around the familiar were no more than continuations, variations of how she had been seeing and feeling all day.†   (source)
  • Not finding a variation on the same task, not coming at things from a different angle, not making the dog relish whatever it was that had to be done, was a failure of the imagination.†   (source)
  • Before it was over some three hours later there would be minor variations on repeated themes, ineffective thrusts and clumsy counterthrusts, and a less than honorable moment when Henry would order prisoners killed rather than leave them in the rear when the English were confronted with a new threat.†   (source)
  • Sophocles' plays of Oedipus and his doomed clan show up over and over again in all sorts of variations.†   (source)
  • Watching the dogs was the only thing that put him at ease, and he made a game of it, trying variations, setting up barriers, switching the order, testing connotations.†   (source)
  • There, the slightest advantage—that is to say, the infinitesimal variation—truly comes into its own.†   (source)
  • The meaning, if we allow for some slight variations of context, is tough-minded, resolute even to the point of hard-heartedness—in other words, just what we might mean by the same statements today.†   (source)
  • We can say that he 'raw material' behind the evolution of life on earth was the continual variation of individuals within the same species, plus the large number of progeny, which meant that only a fraction of them survived, the actual 'mechanism,' or driving force, behind evolution was thus the natural selection in the struggle for survival.†   (source)
  • Darwin demonstrated that these variations were closely linked to the way the finches found their food on the different islands.†   (source)
  • On the question of how the variations arise, Darwin's theory has been supplemented by the so-called neo-Darwinism.†   (source)
  • Oz's looks came directly from his mother, while Lou had a pleasing variation of Amanda's long forehead and her father's lean nose and compact angle of jaw.†   (source)
  • He calls these paintings things like Enigma: Blue and Red, or Variation: Black and White, or Opus 36.†   (source)
  • Kristy had told me to live, whatever that meant in all its variations, and her words were still resonating.†   (source)
  • It was hard to tell them apart, to see the tiny variations in color and shape that were the only markers of the individual.†   (source)
  • I used a variation later.†   (source)
  • The terrifying visions of Kevin kept coming back, recurring endlessly with variations, sometimes changing entirely; there were moments she saw herself bleeding and dying on the porch, staring up at the man she hated.†   (source)
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