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variation as in:  a variation on a theme

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  • I've heard three variations of that joke.
    variations = versions (things that are different than others of their type)
  • Over the years there have been many variations of the Snickers Bar such as the Snickers Almond bar and Snickers Ice Cream bar.
  • Highly empathetic people are more likely to have a gene variation associated with trust and caring.
    variation = version (something that is different than others of its type)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • Once at the security level, Nedry tried three variations:   (source)
    variations = different ways
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variation as in:  a 60% variation

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  • The variation in medical prices can be shocking.
  • They studied regional language variation by analyzing Twitter data.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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  • Half an hour later, having tried many more variations of his request to see what Malfoy was up to, the wall was just as doorless as ever.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • This "thought" is then repeated with small variations (e.g., Where's the food?†   (source)
  • People call it the 'horrible tragedy' or some variation on that.†   (source)
  • If one variation doesn't work, try a different one.†   (source)
  • Strobe variation, I would guess.†   (source)
  • They had been asking each other variations of the same thing for weeks.†   (source)
  • Variations in tone are easier to fudge.†   (source)
  • In one more verse, surely they will have captured the melody, as it's simple and repeats four times with little 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)
  • Being the moon god, I appreciate variation.†   (source)
  • She had concocted all kinds of 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)
  • Occasionally, as if on cue, comets and meteor showers would tumble through the starry ranks, adding variation to the flowing dance.†   (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)
  • They all lived variations of Adel's own life.†   (source)
  • Sophocles' plays of Oedipus and his doomed clan show up over and over again in all sorts 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)
  • 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)
  • There are a few different specific rifles and variations in service with the U.S. military and other armies around the world.†   (source)
  • To this day, every religion on earth shouted out a variation of his name.†   (source)
  • There, the slightest advantage—that is to say, the infinitesimal variation—truly comes into its own.†   (source)
  • Surely you attribute great degrees and variations to goodness.†   (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)
  • Distortions of that distance or lateral movement of the weights indicated variations in the local gravitational field.†   (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)
  • They shake hands, a standard plain old Euro-shake, no fancy variations.†   (source)
  • No variations.†   (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)
  • I must have heard that statement, or variations of it, a hundred times.†   (source)
  • Many of the most famous Muppets were created for ad campaigns: Big Bird is really a variation of a seven-foot dragon created by Henson for La Choy commercials; Cookie Monster was a pitchman for Frito-Lay; Grover was used in promotional films for IBM.†   (source)
  • So we're all role models; the only variation is what kind of role models we choose to be: good or bad.†   (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)
  • We saw the two institutions as variations on each other,doubtless the Birchers did not see it this way.†   (source)
  • Then he could do variations with it.†   (source)
  • He gives me every variation of smile that there is and I have to kiss his smiling lips.†   (source)
  • More voices joined the unearthly song, embroidering the original theme with a hundred variations.†   (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)
  • Now and then we do that with an Aberration, simply to gather additional data and watch for variation.†   (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....'" Harriet winces.†   (source)
  • Effectiveness limited by variations in shield settings and relative motion between target and projectile.†   (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)
  • Most of the houses seem fairly new and are variations of the same few designs.†   (source)
  • Our next attempt at measuring thrust was a variation on the theme, this time using Mom's bathroom scale.†   (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)
  • And no doubt it will all happen again, over and over with different faces and names, variations on the same theme.†   (source)
  • Some also teach variations of faith-healing or claim that Jesus will protect its followers from AIDS.†   (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)
  • It was a variation in the wash of the river beside us.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Her dreams recurred like themes and variations or television series.†   (source)
  • Or some starker variation thereof.†   (source)
  • I've heard variations on that theme.†   (source)
  • Even all those years later, sitting at his desk in Valparaaso, Litvinoff could still remember the original catalogue of bared thighs, inner elbows, and backs of necks that had been the inspiration for countless frenetic variations.†   (source)
  • The other half seemed a bit more westernized, more open to variation, more cultured and friendly, and definitely more hygienic.†   (source)
  • Mathematics was actually a logical puzzle with endless variations—riddles that could be solved.†   (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)
  • Variations on such encounters produced varieties of tortured etiquette.†   (source)
  • A variation on the old Merry Widow.†   (source)
  • The speech of Texas, as big and as extroverted as that star, is another large swath of Inland Southern dialect, with its own variations and history.†   (source)
  • The force is applied by motors, and there is a built-in safety allowance for variations in the mass of the riders.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Lavier was a variation of that method, that's all.†   (source)
  • PRINTED SCORES ARE SUMMATIONS OF TEST AND INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS.†   (source)
  • She opened her mouth, prepared to give him a variation on the same theme.†   (source)
  • Departure speed from a catapult is highly critical and a variation on order of one percent could double or halve trajectory time, Luna to Terra.†   (source)
  • The attorney Giuliani held up a finger: this meant no variation, which, in turn, meant a brioche and a cappuccino.†   (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)
  • I'm just saying that you need to discharge Snow Flower from your thoughts," my mother-in-law said, and finished with a variation of her usual admonition.†   (source)
  • The coughing was routine, and she had tuned her hearing to pick up variations in it.†   (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)
  • I throw on one of the eight variations of tight black T-shirts I own and a pair of jeans and head out.†   (source)
  • I have had variations of the same dream since we immigrated to America.†   (source)
  • Right, only here we believe it's a variation on that tactic.†   (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)
  • Variations: "Anyone who wanted to could kick this door in."†   (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)
  • 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 fabber can produce variation easily.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others.†   (source)
  • Then processes of change and variation took place in the organisms, so that one kind became different from all others.†   (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)
  • Within each of these categories I had recognized, but had been unable adequately to describe, innumerable variations.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • No!" in a loud voice to the beaverboard walls, and then hurl myself on the typewriter where, cackling wickedly, I would tap out a swift, sophomoric but blessedly purgative variation.†   (source)
  • Over the head of the bed hung an obscene variation on the Buddha.†   (source)
  • A boy named Prophet gave the only variation of the theme when he confided to the class with a grin that "I help poppa fick the poppa hog."†   (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)
  • And eating is eating, with some slight variations of table manners.†   (source)
  • The guards seemed to relish concocting variations of their denials.†   (source)
  • Nothing surprised her anymore, though the variation in customers and their businesses was dizzying.†   (source)
  • Virtually all suicides on the islands, in fact, are identical variations on Sima's story.†   (source)
  • the seasonal variations are minimal and the food supply almost certainly remains stable.†   (source)
  • Ugliness, on the other hand, had infinite variation.†   (source)
  • Neo-Darwinism supplemented this by showing a clear cause of just that particular variation.†   (source)
  • Stacks and stacks of T-shirts and hats that say Maui, or Aloha, or some variation of that.†   (source)
  • "They call this one The Goldberg Variation," he said when he returned.†   (source)
  • A variation in a glowglobe's brilliance, a deceptive shadow.†   (source)
  • So few options, and yet an infinite number of variations.†   (source)
  • She never actually cussed, but her variations were just as good.†   (source)
  • A variation of one degree was not tolerated.†   (source)
  • It was a variation on the shared-gaze exercises, and all of the dogs knew how it worked.†   (source)
  • Darwin believed that the giraffe's long neck was the result of a variation.†   (source)
  • He looked at it again and, with self-conscious precision, corrected himself: "Variations."†   (source)
  • Nature produces an enormous breadth of variation.†   (source)
  • The essence of Darwin's theory was the utterly random variations which had finally produced Man.†   (source)
  • Did Darwin have anything to say about how such random variations arose?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • You know, I think there's variations of speaking American.†   (source)
  • And there aren't really major regional variations.†   (source)
  • There are variations possible but this is the basic format.†   (source)
  • "Ours was a variation," said the Monk, sitting down wearily.†   (source)
  • There were dozens of variations on a theme.†   (source)
  • I can feel the slightest variation in the air, and if I do, we're all dead.†   (source)
  • What Clausen does is simply a variation on what people have been doing for hundreds of years.†   (source)
  • Variations of this conversation were endless, and I listened to them every day.†   (source)
  • It was this mapping which disclosed activity variations within an otherwise uniform structure.†   (source)
  • At first he just wrote variations on Russian folk songs mixed with Jewish riffs.†   (source)
  • STRASSNITZKY WAS capable of great variation.†   (source)
  • At the hotel Farmer got to do variations of hortitorture.†   (source)
  • I've probably written a hundred variations of it so far, but it's still not right.†   (source)
  • Even Cactus's first words were a minor variation of those he had used five years ago.†   (source)
  • Then Oromis taught Eragon the wording of the spell and several variations on it.†   (source)
  • And, two, it's a classic trap with a couple of hundred variations.†   (source)
  • This time, she heard the subtle variations he made.†   (source)
  • And always there was the same reply, or a variation of it, spoken in a clipped British accent.†   (source)
  • You might say it's a variation on the theme.†   (source)
  • No, I really don't think that regional variations are gonna disappear.†   (source)
  • Variations in gravity are simply a function of intervening mass.†   (source)
  • It would go on for the better part of a minute; Conklin had heard too many variations before.†   (source)
  • 'But certainly a variation,'insisted d'Anjou.†   (source)
  • Tell them the truth, at least a variation of it, and I think you may even get a bonus.†   (source)
  • Why do mechanical variations in rhythm and tone speak the language of the heart?†   (source)
  • For sounding like me, even using a variation of the words I've used.†   (source)
  • It's a variation of what Webb told you!'†   (source)
  • You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.†   (source)
  • I thought no more about this variation until sometime later when a human shout made me turn around.†   (source)
  • I said fidelity would become you more, to use an elegant variation.†   (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)
  • Yamacraw basketball had several variations and modifications.†   (source)
  • Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree.†   (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)
  • If All in the Family had been more traditional—and if the Aeron had been just a minor variation on the chair that came before it—the act of measuring consumer reactions would not have been nearly as difficult.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It's an example of what is called a priming experiment, and Bargh and others have done numerous even more fascinating variations of it, all of which show just how much goes on behind that locked door of our unconscious.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • However, whereas Brom taught you the crude mechanics of magic, I will teach you its finer applications, the secrets that were reserved for the wisest of the Riders: how you can kill with no more energy than moving your finger, the method by which you can instantaneously transport an item from one point to another, a spell that will allow you to identify poisons in your food and drink, a variation on scrying that allows you to hear as well as to see, how you can draw energy from your surroundings and thus preserve your own strength, and how you can maximize your strength in every possible way.†   (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)
  • And then on this vast and desolate landscape of night, where I was standing alone and where Babette was only an illusion, I saw suddenly a possibility that I'd never considered before, a possibility from which I'd fled, rapt as I was with the world, fallen into the senses of the vampire, in love with color and shape and sound and singing and softness and infinite variation.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • There was much more variation.†   (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)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • What's the variation?" the Duke asked.†   (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)
  • In other words, effects of rearing variation (e. g. parents' lighting up or not, or having cigarettes in the home or not) were essentially nil by the time the children reached adulthood," the psychologist David Rowe writes in his 1994 book summarizing research on the question.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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