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How can I use $var in a shell brace expansion of a sequence?

I want to use $var in a shell brace expansion with a range, in bash. Simply putting {$var1..$var2} doesn't work, so I went "lateral"... The following works, but it's a bit kludgey. # remove the ...
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brace expansion other commands besides mkdir?

Found this nifty lifehacking gem to create multiple directories: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/640/7768 I was wondering if there are other commands support brace expansion?