variation
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Short of driving cross-country or moving to the Midwest, there is little the average Californian can do to avoid this, but the vast variation in prices holds hints about other ways to save.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
BBC Sport understands that the Australian A-League will trial a variation with the captain always having to leave the field.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Mr. Jones, a professor of law and biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, explains how the complex and often beautiful products of evolution emerge from the simple fact of variation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The TV variation of Max Cady is where the classic prestige drama Difficult Man shakes hands with a manosphere cultist’s pent-up aggression.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Each line on the map is like a contour line but, instead of marking a uniform measurement of height, it marks a uniform measurement of magnetic variation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Standards, such as the number of children a teacher can supervise, would soon be under local control, leading to variations across the country, which Head Start advocates worry could diminish the quality of the program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
These variations were not scattered randomly throughout the genome.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Here was a new formal language, studied in countless variations and ready to be tailored to fit the body of Freundlich’s program, if one ever arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
This has scientific importance, as it reveals what animal species did through climatic variations and how humans responded to changing environments.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Even though the variations between these different "half steps" are small, they strongly affect the sound of the music.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
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Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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