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  • adverb In a manner that varies.

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varying +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Most of the stories are set in varyingly 17th or 18th century milieux, with a heavy admixture of Hermetic magic.

    October Books 17) White Crow, by Mary Gentle nwhyte 2009

  • Almost every expert has off-the-record opinions on his peers, describing them (varyingly) as Pyongyang apologists or mouthpieces for South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

    A historic moment for N. Korea watchers Chico Harlan 2010

  • Almost every expert has off-the-record opinions on his peers, describing them (varyingly) as Pyongyang apologists or mouthpieces for South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

    North Korea watchers'dark art in spotlight Chico Harlan 2010

  • Her tournaments, however, were an odd collection of events, with varyingly deep fields, and thus forever asterisk-able.

    Celebrity and Contrast on the Course 2011

  • Fleshing out the cast, with varyingly generic degrees of success, are a gorgeous U.S. Marshal (Mercedes Masöhn) and a rebellious delinquent teen on parole (Maddie Hasson) whose gypsy criminal-family upbringing is both blessing and curse.

    Thursday TV in Review: Rotten Rob, Finder, Person of Interest and More 2012

  • Beyond this microcosm, it is an account of a country battling the scourge of AIDS, meeting it varyingly with infuriating inertia and awe-inspiring acts of courage and fortitude.

    Robyn Scott - An interview with author 2010

  • Almost every expert has off-the-record opinions on his peers, describing them (varyingly) as Pyongyang apologists or mouthpieces for South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

    A historic moment for N. Korea watchers Chico Harlan 2010

  • By the same token, there have been market systems that were not capitalist in orientation: Socialist states such as Yugoslavia under Tito, and varyingly some of the more socialistically leaning contemporary Western European states.

    Think Progress » Tea Party Profiteers: How Republican Operatives Are Exploiting Economic Anxiety For Power, Cash 2010

  • It was '' God Conlon ', resplendent among the shadows in his huge black beard and long waving hair, the very features that had earned him his biblically based nickname now accentuated by gradations of the varyingly distant streetlights.

    God on Paddy's Night. Michael J. Maguire 2010

  • His mastery of the gradations of white especially as expressed in the girls 'pinafores from foreground intensity to how it's gradually and varyingly inflected with the darker background is impressively daring.

    A Unique Meeting Of Two Masterpieces 2010

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