multifarious

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From here, the exhibition displays the multifarious, entrepreneurial career of Duchamp, who also assumed the female alter-ego Rrose Sélavy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

To capture Dylan in all his multifarious splendor, writer-director Todd Haynes cast six actors to portray different aspects of the songwriter’s protean genius.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024

Outside-world triggers for Inger are multifarious — she refuses to bathe and often carps about walking — but none prove as potent as Andreas’s scorn, which sets hurdles throughout the trip.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2023

Funding for past reinsurance has been creative and multifarious, lodged sometimes in Federal Reserve powers, sometimes in program authority to recoup through future premiums, or borrowing authority from the U.S.

From Slate • May 15, 2023

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides