Variations
Ways and variations are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ways" instead a noun "Variations".
Ways
Ways noun - Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.
Variations and ways are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Variations" instead a noun "Ways".
Both words in one sentence
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NetHack has uncountable ways to kill you, but very few ways to become unwinnable, most of which are variations of "tick off your quest leader before you get the Bell of Opening".
Source: Unwinnable by Insanity - As a metaphor, this can play out in lots of variations using any of the following tropes, or in entirely new ways by mix and matching "Discipline" and "Harmony" factions from this list.
Source: Harmony Versus Discipline -
This leads to the being a lot of different variations on this theme, and a lot of possible ways to play and present them.
Source: Merlin and Nimue
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