Drift
Drift verb - Vary or move from a fixed point or course.
Usage example: stock prices are drifting higher
Vary
Vary verb - To be unlike; to not be the same.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The most obvious bit of Continuity Drift in The General series is the way Lady Suzette's eye color and the number of generations her family have been patricians vary from book to book.
Source: Continuity Drift - Continuity Drift: In universe, the loops can sometimes have certain details vary between them.
Source: Fan Fic / The Infinite Loops -
Continuity Drift: A couple of minor ones, such as how little the brothers are aquainted with more "normal" pop-culture tends to vary over the series, for instance, in one episode Niles doesn't know what a double-header is, and in another he can correctly use the phrase "a scout from the majors".
Source: Series / Frasier
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