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chameleon

[kuh-mee-lee-uhn, -meel-yuhn] / kəˈmi li ən, -ˈmil jən /
NOUN
inconstant person
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What’s inevitably lost is the excitement of watching a single performer act the chameleon, flipping between characters as if changing psychic TV channels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The years since the publication of “Hillbilly Elegy” demonstrated that Vance is, at his heart, an opportunist and a chameleon.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

"He is a chameleon," said 1994 World Cup winner Leonardo, who worked with Ancelotti at AC Milan and Paris St-Germain both as a player and as an executive.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

And then there’s literary chameleon Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who slips into a dark and steamy tale steeped in the tropes of James M. Cain, recent Mexican history and telenovelas.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

She studied the photo more closely, and as she did, the thoughts of the chameleon trickled back into her brain.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

These chameleons are desert specialists and can obtain moisture directly from the air.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

On a recent visit, it was hard to decide what was more surreal: the carved statues of snails, chameleons and turtles that decorate the church’s exterior or the circuslike scene around it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

To update the classification of nose chameleons, the team applied a museomics approach, a method that allows scientists to extract DNA from long-preserved museum specimens.

From Science Daily Dec. 13, 2025

We view ourselves as chameleons, because we want to be ourselves, but we want to play to the audience.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2025

“So, you were looking up chameleons during lunch,” she said.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste



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