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It was a variant of the same old story.variant = something a little different from others of the same type
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Andrew Carnegie helped eliminate many variant spellings through the Simplified Spelling Board.variant = different
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When the first giant bones were found in the 1820s and 1830s, scientists felt obliged to explain the bones as belonging to some oversize variant of a modern species.† (source)
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Instead, I got stuck searching his usernames and variants of them, and ended up meeting a lot of people who weren't my Davis Pickett—the fifty-three-year-old Dave Pickett who was a truck driver in Wisconsin; the Davis Pickett who'd died of ALS after years of posting short blog entries written with the help of eye-tracking software; a Twitter user named dallgoodman whose blog was nothing but vitriolic threats directed at members of Congress.† (source)
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They checked every variant spelling, every department, and couldn't find him.† (source)
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The name Kotku (Ukrainian variant: Kotyku) makes her sound more interesting than she was; but it wasn't her real name, only a pet name ("Kitty cat," in Polish) that Boris had given her.† (source)
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Raven talks to the waiter for a while in some variant of Taxilinga.† (source)
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There were individual variants here and there, of course, but within pretty narrow limits we all wore the same clothes, talked the same way, ate the same food, listened to the same music.† (source)
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It means that the laws of physics are not invariant across time and space.† (source)invariant = the same as others of the same typestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in invariant means not and reverses the meaning of variant. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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When I finally cornered her one rainy afternoon, and we set out the board in the billiards room, she proceeded to show me a game that was a vague variant on draughts.† (source)
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So the names Dyaus, Zeus, lov, and Tyr are dialectal variants of the same word.† (source)
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Many of the features common to contemporary Black English are absent from the "slave" tapes, for instance, what linguists call "the invariant be" as in they be working, and the "deleted copula," leaving out the auxiliary verb in they working.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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I looked at my parents' aliases and their birthdays, which variants I knew.† (source)
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The one invariant custom was: Don't impose your customs on me.† (source)
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Nick's columns about Mukhtar (who at the time went by a variant of her name, Mukhtaran Bibi) brought her $430,000 in contributions from readers, channeled through Mercy Corps, an aid group that does work in Pakistan.† (source)
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