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Definition

something a little different from others of the same type

It was a variant of the same old story.

variant = something a little different from others of the same type

Andrew Carnegie helped eliminate many variant spellings through the Simplified Spelling Board.

variant = different

His argument is a variant of the continuum fallacy which argues that if you can't draw the line precisely between X and non-X, there's no distinction at all between X and non-X.
It is a modern variant of a coming-of-age story.
Rorty described analytic philosophy as a variant of Kantian philosophy.
Cupid and Psyche is perhaps the earliest variant on this tale.
Alex Flinn -- Beastly
And just as guilts of variant cause and intricacy were etched forever in her own and Grace's hearts, so too was the hurt she had wrought in his.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Variants of this rumormongering set off other cities.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
I looked at my parents' aliases and their birthdays, which variants I knew.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
Raven talks to the waiter for a while in some variant of Taxilinga.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
Contrahit orator, variant in carmine vates.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
In my thinking we were still no more than unhappy minor variants; but I could look back and consider why we had been forced to flee...... I glanced at Petra.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
'I am of opeenion it is not your old gentleman's precise releegion, but rather sub-variant of same.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
There were manuscripts there which he needed for the purpose of checking variant readings of the Talmudic passage on which he was working.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
I witnessed this scene or its variant at least a score of times andI felt no anger or hatred, only disgust and loathing.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
But in each variant of Socialism that appeared from about 1900 onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned.
George Orwell -- 1984
The penciled note in the paperback had mentioned a variant.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
To such allowances the ablebodied pauper and his nomadic variant the tramp are equally entitled.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
She had cut back on bodybuilding, that extreme variant of bodily glorification, some years ago.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
So the names Dyaus, Zeus, lov, and Tyr are dialectal variants of the same word.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

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