fickleness

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Noun
  • Overcoming injuries, Jurickson Profar’s 80-game suspension and bullpen volatility has proved too difficult.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
  • While the household survey tends to have more volatility, May’s readings from that particular wing of the report rang more alarm bells than usual.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands, as the center-left was evolving, the label was most effectively applied to those telegenic figures—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, John Edwards—who were suspected of ideological inconstancy and of substituting polls for principles.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • That fateful connection would snowball into a lifelong friendship and artistic partnership that thrives on curiosity, trust and unabashed eccentricity.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Through the divination trial, the audience learns that much of Lilia’s eccentricity comes from her experience living life out of order, giving more context to moments earlier in the season, where the character would blurt out what seemed to be random statements.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Compounding investor worries are governance issues, including previous allegations of accounting irregularities, delays in SEC filings, and scrutiny from short sellers.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Computer vision uses hardware—like cameras, in this case—and pairs their input with an AI algorithm to identify irregularities or violations.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • In the future, do not allow Ruth to borrow your car, and remember her flakiness when making plans.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
  • And this can lead to greasiness, dryness, flakiness or itchiness (or some combination of the four) of the scalp.
    Mara Santilli, Flow Space, 22 May 2025
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“Fickleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fickleness. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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