vary
verb (used with object)
to change or alter, as in form, appearance, character, or substance.
varyingly
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a word derived from
vary.
Example Sentences
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The country is home to an intricate web of varyingly active faults, including many that streak through the High Atlas mountain range.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 11, 2023
A few private transit undertakings had varyingly formed, re-formed, gone bankrupt, been taken over or combined since the late 19th century, using cable cars, horse-drawn cars, funiculars, electric trolleys — all manner of movable systems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
Reviewers varyingly called it "Oscar-Season B.S.," "woefully misguided," "Yokel Hokum," "laughably bad" and simply "awful."
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2020
At its centre sit four varyingly useless brothers, stranded without parents on the banks of a river winding through the titular Keralan tourist hotspot.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2020
It is in these small poems, dealing varyingly with various phases of love, that the finest, the rarest, work in the volume is to be found.
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
