variegate
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She also found out that she has a rare gene mutation that causes a disease called variegate porphyria, which can cause blistering skin lesions and acute attacks that cause severe abdominal pain.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2017
In jihadi-speak, this is known as “marbling”: local groups variegate their formal ties with global movements when strategically or financially convenient.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
If the callow ends progress properly, their flexibility should variegate the Chargers' front seven down the road.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2012
To enrich his theme and variegate his texture, he abruptly interjects a two-minute "quote" from another movie and later for the same reasons rabbets in some paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Wayside shrines are decked with laburnum boughs and iris blossoms plucked from the copse-woods, and where spires of purple and pink orchis variegate the thin, fine grass.
From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington
Like his films, Mr. Sayles’s novels are divided among a teeming cast of variegated characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Waikiki reveals these striking colors earlier than other variegated colocasia.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
Hamlin's catastrophic on-field collapse and cardiac arrest on January 2, 2023 caused the unprecedented suspension of an NFL game, and brought home for a national TV audience the variegated harms of America's most popular sport.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2024
Which is all the more reason to acknowledge the rich bounty of work in the variegated landscape of today’s off-Broadway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
A short beach of gray-white sand led to the cliff edge, which rose, a great face of variegated rock, for fifty feet.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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And beyond the academy – is it variegating at all, the audience?
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2012
Even the coves differ in the materials with which their walls are built, feldspar, porphyry, and jasper variegating their rugged features with pleasing effect.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
Thou dull, senseless stone, with thy numberless crystals variegating and glittering on the hard resting-place that I have chosen, whence came those minerals that combined to form thee?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
The inhabitants are comparatively numerous in the villages, which rise at short intervals above their impervious walls of the lustrous green milk-bush, with its coral-shaped arms, variegating the well-hoed plains.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
Goethe accepts the doctrine of vis centripeta, beyond the influence of which no developmental progress can be made in the way of diversifying or variegating ideal types.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
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