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Some variation of the truth will set you free, so I suggest you go on a truth offensive.

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He was initially focused on temperature variations, and he viewed the pressure peaks as unwelcome noise.

Inter-subject variations are to be expected, for example due to differences in physiology, mask fit, head position, speech pattern and such.

This big data approach scans existing genomic databases for variations in DNA coding that could lead to differences in some outcome—for example, long versus short life.

Some frequencies will show up more strongly than others, and these variations highlight patterns — for instance, a strong frequency might indicate that the list contains more odd numbers than even ones.

As I went spelunking through the research literature, I found a huge variation in definitions.

Biological variation was celebrated in the pantheon of the gods.

At one point in this show, a variation of this happened, in succession.

Climate warming can be charted as a long-term rising trend with variation.

Papers and websites are filled with opinion pieces running some variation of the title “Who lost Iraq?”

Marked variation in the amount at successive examinations strongly suggests a neurosis.

The variation of the compass in this interval is scarcely affected by the ship's local attraction.

The variation in this interval is almost too trifling to be noticed for the purposes of common navigation.

Thus it may well come about that our coast lines are swaying up and down in ceaseless variation.

There is never any great variation in the temperature, which is the natural consequence of the place being near the equator.

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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to variation, such as: abnormality, alteration, change, deviation, discrepancy, and disparity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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