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variant

[vair-ee-uhnt] / ˈvɛər i ənt /




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"The fact this outbreak variant was able to spread to so many young people was due to the social environment, a place where lots of close social mixing takes place."

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

Patients with the behavioral variant of FTD, many of whom I’ve studied for years, become impulsive and apathetic and completely ignorant of social cues.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The variant with 256GB of storage, meanwhile, costs £889.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Every third EV sold in the U.S. this year has been a Model Y. This summer, Tesla broadened the vehicle’s appeal by launching a slightly longer variant, the Model Y L, with six seats.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Meggers’s “law of environmental limitation of culture,” her critics in essence say, is nothing but a green variant of Holmberg’s Mistake.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The latest Geran “Seeker” variants use object recognition, allowing the drone to recognize targets and lock onto them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Researchers found that genetic variants associated with naturally higher levels of GLP-1 receptor proteins were more common in men with androgenetic alopecia.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Genetic variants associated with conscientiousness were also related to being more active during the daytime.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

For instance, variants associated with extraversion in a young adult living in the Netherlands could also help predict extraversion in an older retired adult in the United States.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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