Vocabulary
Vary
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class.
Urdu meaning
مختلف ہونا، بدلنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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The details may vary, but the broad ideaisthatthepresentstructureistootopheavy; that the provinces supposedly empowered after the 18th Amendment are too unwieldy as units.
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Federation demolition
— 2026-02-25
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Estimates vary, but some of the ones I have looked at say once this figure crosses $100 we would have passed a critical threshold.
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The renewable tipping point
— 2026-02-19
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The revenue estimates for Basant vary but it is clear that even such short bursts of festival-related activity can create a big ripple effect across local economies.
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Sky`s the limit
— 2026-02-10
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These ideas do not belong to any tradition or community but they do form the ground on which all beliefs can stand because belief may vary but belonging must not.
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Living with difference
— 2026-02-08
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Timimi points out that psychiatric diagnoses are not grounded in objective biomarkers but in symptom clusters that vary across cultures.
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Mental health in a broken world
— 2026-01-12
Synonyms
differ, be different, be unlike, be dissimilar, range, extend, stretch, reach,
Antonyms
agree, be static
Curator example
“the properties vary in price”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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