Sentence:  Among the policy makers , generals , physicists , psychologists and others charged with controlling the actions of the button pushers and their `` hardware '' , the answers to my questions <WSD>varied</WSD> partly according to a man 's flair for what the professionals in this field call `` scenarios '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence