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Six example sentences with protean, each labelled with its topic.
The lead actress is protean, unrecognizable as a chemist in one film and a truck driver in the next.
Movies
The virus proved protean, shifting its surface proteins so quickly that last winter's vaccine matched almost nothing circulating.
Science
Her protean career runs from bluegrass fiddle to film scoring, with a decade of jazz arranging in between.
Music
Shakespeare's language is protean, turning nouns into verbs and insults into songs within a single scene.
Literature
A protean forward who can guard all five positions lets the coach switch every screen without a substitution.
Basketball
Picasso's protean style moved from blue portraits to cubist guitars to classical bathers within fifteen years.
Art
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