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Which TV program was a classic example of a variety show?

variety

[vuh-rahy-i-tee] / vəˈraɪ ɪ ti /




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Andrea Schulze Dias, vice president and group chief information officer of Toshiba America, is a nearly two-decade Toshiba veteran who oversees a variety of businesses—from industrial operations to hardware and energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Diet is another problem: many families rely heavily on rice and lentil soup, with too little protein and dietary variety.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

AFP ran excerpts through other AI detection tools and came up with a variety of results -- from it being "very likely" to have been written by a human to "100 percent" AI generated.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Microsoft holds a advantageous position as a platform that can host a variety of large language models, whether it be that of OpenAI, Anthropic or another AI developer, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

He’s called me a variety of things in the past: Thrift Shop, Dollar Store, Walmart, Mr. Green Shoes, and his favorite—Shoestain.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

All the caviar we sampled looked pristine, but some roe tasted like a big ol’ gulp of the ocean, including two varieties from Imperia, a limited edition Petrusco offering, and Roe House’s Hackleback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The results suggest that starch in these varieties is broken down more slowly, allowing glucose to enter the bloodstream more gradually.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The researchers say the findings could eventually help consumers better understand the nutritional differences among pigmented rice varieties while also encouraging the creation of new health-focused foods.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Some Western growers believe Chinese growers have been mixing illicitly obtained protected varieties with other blueberry plants, making it harder to enforce intellectual-property claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

In contrast, many apparently widespread Native American crops prove to consist of related species or even of genetically distinct varieties of the same species, independently domesticated in Mesoamerica, South America, and the eastern United States.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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