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    They checked every variant spelling, every department, and couldn't find him.†  (source)
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    Raven talks to the waiter for a while in some variant of Taxilinga.†  (source)
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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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    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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    So the names Dyaus, Zeus, lov, and Tyr are dialectal variants of the same word.†  (source)
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    It means that the laws of physics are not invariant across time and space.†  (source)
    standard 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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    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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    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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    The one invariant custom was: Don't impose your customs on me.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    The so-called Ancient Teachings — including those preserved by the Zensunni Wanderers from the first, second, and third Islamic movements; the Navachristianity of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found all through the universe in little pockets of insulated pyons, and finally, the Butlerian Jihad.†  (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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    Instead, he went in for such things as ponsoring a Mukaihara contest in gateball, a primitive variant of croquet; he often wore a necktie — which cost him five thousand yen, or twenty dollars — with Gate Ball embroidered across it in English script.†  (source)
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