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  • noun Plural form of variant.

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Examples

  • 'Dracula' 1992 Gary Oldman stars in the toothsome title role of what is also known as "Bram Stoker's Dracula" or "Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula"; the title variants may have been efforts to avoid litigation by Universal Studios, which had laid claim to ownership of the title "Dracula" plain and simple.

    Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • As a nomenclatural note, even obvious term variants like "pictures" (plural) and "picture" (singular) would be treated as different search terms by a dumb computer, so we also include these types of relationships within our umbrella of synonyms.

    Helping computers understand language 2010

  • We have identified prion protein variants in the white-tailed deer population and demonstrated that Prnp genotype affects the susceptibility/disease progression of white-tailed deer to CWD agent.

    CWD Worse Than Ever In Wisconsin Counties 2009

  • The existence of cervid prion protein variants raises the likelihood of distinct CWD strains.

    CWD Worse Than Ever In Wisconsin Counties 2009

  • We have identified prion protein variants in the white-tailed deer population and demonstrated that Prnp genotype affects the susceptibility/disease progression of white-tailed deer to CWD agent.

    CWD Worse Than Ever In Wisconsin Counties 2009

  • The existence of cervid prion protein variants raises the likelihood of distinct CWD strains.

    CWD Worse Than Ever In Wisconsin Counties 2009

  • Three of those are variant covers (one of those variants is for a second print).

    Remember the Bad Old Days of Variant Covers? Marvel Does. » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • How you interpreted this as me saying that either human thought OR biological evolution used random generation of variants is difficult to imagine – unless of course you didn't actually read what I wrote and went off half-cocked.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • No Depression, the award-winning bimonthly magazine that covers alternative-country and its variants, is going out of business after the May/June issue.

    No (More) Depression; Some Polvo 2008

  • No Depression, the award-winning bimonthly magazine that covers alternative-country and its variants, is going out of business after the May/June issue.

    February 2008 2008

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