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as in volatile
likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly
a fickle friendship that was on and off over the years
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as in traitorous
not true in one's allegiance to someone or something
when the family's fortune disappeared, so did their fickle friends
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Recent Examples of fickle
Whether a play endures or fades is fickle.
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Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
12 June 2026
Still, auroras are notoriously fickle and can appear earlier or later depending on how the solar material interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
Laurie will play Control, the fiendish and commanding head of The Circus, Smiley’s morally fickle superior, known only by his code name.
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Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026
What matters is what Apple announced, not how a fickle market trades the shares.
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Zev Fima,
CNBC,
8 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for fickle
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
12 June 2026
Still, auroras are notoriously fickle and can appear earlier or later depending on how the solar material interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.
—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
Laurie will play Control, the fiendish and commanding head of The Circus, Smiley’s morally fickle superior, known only by his code name.
—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2026
What matters is what Apple announced, not how a fickle market trades the shares.
—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
8 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for fickle
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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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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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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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Each one grew up in a home that required her to curry favor with volatile and inconstant parents—a menacing father figure, a recessive and enabling mother—and each found a fragile safety in her caretakers’ occasional good will.
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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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“Fickle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fickle. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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