varyingly
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6.3
- adverb
- /ˈvɛrɪŋli/
:
de manera variable
- Those who would especially appreciate this line of argument are those engaged in what is varyingly called virtual ethnography, cyber anthropology, or digital studies, and even media studies (see, for example, Elizabeth Bird's The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World, which takes to task the conventional meanings of ethnography and even disputes the concept of an "audience").
Examples
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These grooming behaviors (called "prospecting" in the handbook) are only varyingly successful.
Academic text (2011) -
So, you know, you think about this the the the so-called Zeta function, which we've we've seen before in lots of varyingly controversial context.
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Then, varyingly arbitrary but all very visible, government solutions are raised.
Blog text (22) -
Foxconn varyingly denied and downplayed the strike.
Blog text (19) -
These transferences are varyingly threatening or pleasurable, and each will be varyingly frustrated or gratified as the evening's psychodrama unfolds.
Academic text (1997) -
These transferences are varyingly threatening or pleasurable, and each will be varyingly frustrated or gratified as the evening's psychodrama unfolds.
Academic text (1997) -
You stand here convicted varyingly... ...of lewdness, jack-rolling... ...sneak-thievery, chloral-hydrating... ...sodomy, strangulation... ...and enthusiastic corruption of the public good.
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The weather can change varyingly from sunny to rainy in just a few hours.
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Students perform varyingly on tests, with some excelling while others struggle.
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Her mood changes varyingly depending on how much sleep she gets.
Synonyms
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4.0
In different ways
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5.3
In a way that changes and is different each time
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4.5
In many different ways, for example by people's background or skills
In many different ways
Antonyms
How Variable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Varyingly comes from the simple verb vary, which comes from an old root var- meaning 'different' or 'to change', and you can see the same idea in variety and various. So, varyingly means 'in a way that changes' or 'differently at different times'.