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as in volatile
likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly
our windjammer sailed wherever the inconstant winds took us
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as in traitorous
not true in one's allegiance to someone or something
an inconstant but always entertaining friend
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Recent Examples of inconstant
The self is a shifting, inconstant phenomenon, brain and body ever transforming in time and space, with no clear delineation between what is self and what is other.
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Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
If the United States is an unreliable partner and a source of chaos these countries will turn elsewhere, building new security and trade alliances that don’t depend on the inconstant, waning superpower.
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Lydia Polgreen,
Mercury News,
27 May 2025
Much like a patient who fails to finish a course of antibiotics, inconstant policies may incur all the costs and none of the benefits.
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David Carlin,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
The key finding is that as the distance grows greater, the coupling stops growing, and the inconstant constant becomes constant once more.
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Stanley J. Brodsky,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2024
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Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
If the United States is an unreliable partner and a source of chaos these countries will turn elsewhere, building new security and trade alliances that don’t depend on the inconstant, waning superpower.
—
Lydia Polgreen,
Mercury News,
27 May 2025
Much like a patient who fails to finish a course of antibiotics, inconstant policies may incur all the costs and none of the benefits.
—
David Carlin,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
The key finding is that as the distance grows greater, the coupling stops growing, and the inconstant constant becomes constant once more.
—
Stanley J. Brodsky,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2024
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Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Global stock markets have been volatile as investors continue to assess geopolitical risks in the Middle East, fundamentals and valuations of companies in the artificial intelligence (AI) market and key economic data.
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The crisis started after officials responded to GKN’s Garden Grove facility on May 21 and soon realized a volatile chemical tank was at risk of exploding or causing a major spill.
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And at the very center of Hell is Satan himself, the traitorous Archangel Lucifer, depicted as a monstrous creature with wings and three heads.
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Russell fabricates a lie with the rest of the villains, and the heroes believe it, despite a warning from one traitorous tribemate.
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This unpredictable chaos, fueled by technological glitches and administrative issues, is worsening as peak summer travel begins.
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However, construction zones are inherently unpredictable.
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Local computing can shorten response times and keep critical software running even when network links become unreliable.
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Existing safety tools were unreliable, so Adler decided to design a new one.
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Rigorous, blustery winter; winding sleety spring; hot, moist enervating summer; changeful autumn with its dog-days; these are absolutely unknown.
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Hers is the kind of face that inspires directors to tight framing — gleaming, as if smoothed from marble, and yet somehow pliant, changeful.
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Nadi Jabari, 46, was charged with false personation, unlawful use of a blue light and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
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Back when King was indicted in the summer of 2025, about 200 of them gathered in a Cleburne conference hall to make plans about how to support the sheriff, and decried the allegations against him as false attacks on King’s character.
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The conservation team will secure unstable paint before cleaning the works with fiber lasers.
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Most of the people with the dragons are either unstable or idiots, or both.
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After death, the garden becomes more treacherous.
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For 250 years, between 1565 and 1815, the famous galleon fleet left the port of Manila for the port of Acapulco and back, traveling for months over the treacherous ocean while carrying a lucrative flow of foods, silver, fabrics and culinary traditions.
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“Inconstant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconstant. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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