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variegate

[vair-ee-i-geyt, vair-i-geyt] / ˈvɛər i ɪˌgeɪt, ˈvɛər ɪˌgeɪt /


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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

Welcome so to rate The arras-folds that variegate The earth, God's antechamber, well!

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

It is variegated with mingled, microtonal refractions from the window and the mirror.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 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

The rock-like interiors are fabricated via shotcrete, the method used to construct the curving concrete forms of skateparks and swimming pools; the tones are the variegated colors of sand.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2023

But the crotons were lusher than ever and the variegated bougainvilleas she hadn’t thought would take were heavy with pink blossoms.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

And beyond the academy – is it variegating at all, the audience?

From Salon Oct. 29, 2012

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

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 R. W. Wright

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 Anna B. Badlam

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 Samuel Adams Drake




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