arbitrariness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arbitrariness
Noun
  • In fact, no fewer than a quarter of the league’s bosses have gone public with varying degrees of volatility at their respective situations.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
  • One college turns to donors While many schools are warning of cuts or sitting in limbo, one college in a small Massachusetts town has found a way to get ahead of the funding volatility.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The eccentricity refers to how noncircular an orbit is.
    Darryl Z. Seligman, The Conversation, 3 July 2025
  • The play draws out the distinctiveness of the grandparents by ratcheting up their zingy eccentricities.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The Union-Tribune and its affiliated news service revealed irregularities with the sale — and the buyer’s record of winning federal contracts with Cunningham’s help.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Machine learning models that are trained on historical gameplay data can easily spot irregularities such as sudden skill surges and erratic movement patterns, indicating the use of bots or hacks.
    Anees Ali Khan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Europeans, awakened to the danger of American inconstancy, are scrambling to spend trillions more on defense in coming years.
    Adam Rasmi, Time, 20 June 2025
  • Years of naval inconstancy with repair work drove Vigor Industrial—a once vibrant and growing maritime conglomerate—into the welcoming arms of hedge funds, which wasted no time in striping the company of value.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Arbitrariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arbitrariness. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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