protean
Example Sentences
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The internal reasons for Mr. Trump’s decisions on most subjects are protean, his explanations for them confusing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
In particular, there is a confused, protean nature of conducting operations among a civilian population you are sworn to defend while simultaneously seeking to prevent them from harming you or others.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025
This is a festival that continues to ask what it means to present a music festival — particularly one that aspires to represent an entire, protean genre.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
That I didn’t know this at the time makes me want to re-imagine my relationship with the city now as something latent, something protean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
In addition to seeming eternal, ubiquitous, protean, and endlessly quotable, Franklin had the most sophisticated sense of timing among all the prominent statesmen of the revolutionary era.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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