How to Use multifarious in a Sentence
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That road has been a constant and multifarious one for Jones.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
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Georgiana in her multifarious endeavors of both the pianoforte and the heart.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
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Other members of that now-defunct conclave are folks Otash has crossed paths with in the course of multifarious doings.
—Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 June 2021
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This year’s Summerfest will chart a multifarious path that brings to mind the words of the late author, teacher and social activist Grace Paley.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
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But the multifarious state of the reckoning is very much an argument for a commission.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 20 May 2021
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Scott Pask’s bare-boards set, lighted with nowhere-to-hide clarity by Adam Honoré, consists of some sheets of parachute silk and olive-drab packing crates, which are put to multifarious use.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 27 June 2018
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Each item, sampling Ray’s multifarious subjects and means, scores a discrete shock.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
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The reasons for this alarming gap are, like the causes of addiction itself, multifarious.
—Zachary Siegel, Harper’s Magazine , 30 Aug. 2022
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Or, more precisely, a truly creative artist who mastered the textbooks of music, then put them aside and forged a stunningly multifarious path all his own.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
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The pianist seemed to my ears to be insightfully examining Beethoven’s process of grieving the loss of his hearing, the multifarious emotions flying forth.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2017
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Greater agility will be a highly sought after skill, as the type of issues facing leaders post-pandemic can be multifarious.
—Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
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Expectant mothers are not routinely screened for CMV and the reasons why are multifarious.
—Essence, 19 July 2022
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No other form of writing feels so strange, so multifarious, so completely and utterly new.
—Tom Bissell, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2013
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The only thing that has prevented Twitter’s stock from falling to single digits over the past few months has been the multifarious rumor of a possible acquisition.
—vanityfair.com, 4 Jan. 2017
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The only thing that has prevented Twitter’s stock from falling to single digits over the past few months has been the multifarious rumor of a possible acquisition.
—Nick Bilton, The Hive, 4 Jan. 2017
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That includes this particular telling, rendered by a multifarious cast of five, under the direction of David Herskovits.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
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The sprawling, multifarious space at 108 Cleveland Ave.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 22 Feb. 2022
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No single response can blunt these multifarious activities, but transparency is the place to start.
—William A. Galston, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
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He is widely seen as understanding the multifarious mechanics of sanctions, a rare feat.
—New York Times, 13 May 2018
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Nervous systems are diverse, and so the aesthetics and emotions that are part of these experiences no doubt take on multifarious textures across the animal kingdom.
—David George Haskell, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
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The cost of living in California is exorbitant, and so is campaigning for major office in this far-flung, multifarious state.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
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The technical causes of these deaths are multifarious, and yet one variable stands out: A disproportionate number of the deceased did not have access to air-conditioning.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 30 June 2021
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Speculation about realms under the sea, and dependence on water sources—lakes and wells and streams—gave rise to a multifarious population of watery beings, including rusalkas and undines and goblins.
—Marina Warner, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
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Which has left marketers to weigh the marketing potential of an untapped army of youthful influencers against the multifarious risks of a still-evolving arena, executives and observers say.
—Patrick Coffee, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2023
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With its meta high jinks and emotional heft, its stark architecture involving just one character and a chorus of his multifarious thoughts, it has rightly been called radical in both form and content.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
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The two recording artists earned nominations for a multifarious list of collaborations and fusions, which points to a new wave of international pop in urban Latin.
—Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2017
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Other researchers, having studied the Amazon up close in mucky fieldwork, object to the use of computer models that apply uniform assumptions to this multifarious biome.
—Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
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The presenters on the telecast were far more diverse — far more representative of the multifarious energies of popular culture — than the winners.
—Manohla Dargis, A.o. Scott and Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
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Joined by thousands of concerned citizens and multifarious experts, an epic and terrifying battle of constantly changing unknowns had to be won to save them.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
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Their innate talent and a multifarious sound blending country, R&B and soul swiftly gained attention from those in the music community.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2022
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