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adjective

varying

marked by diversity or difference

In a sentence

Six example sentences with varying, each labelled with its topic.

  • Shooters using varying focal lengths on the same face produce portraits that flatter or distort depending on the choice.

    Photography

  • Students given varying amounts of feedback learned at rates the study could not explain by effort alone.

    Psychology

  • The terrace uses bricks of varying tone, so the wall reads as handmade rather than machine-perfect from the street.

    Architecture

  • The loan carries a varying rate that resets each quarter, so the monthly payment is never quite the same twice.

    Finance

  • Vegetables of varying sizes never roast evenly, so she cut every carrot to the thickness of her thumb.

    Cooking

  • Patients responded with varying speed, and the slowest needed a month to reach the level others hit in a week.

    Medicine

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