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Recent Examples of fickleness
Harris drove in three runs in the 11-5 win, offering a reminder of baseball’s fickleness.
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Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
Newsom explains his fickleness differently.
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Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
The fickleness of decisions relieved some and cursed others.
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Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
23 Dec. 2025
That almost feline fickleness mostly has to do with the structure of the comet itself, which can change over time.
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Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill.
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Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
Newsom explains his fickleness differently.
—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
The fickleness of decisions relieved some and cursed others.
—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
23 Dec. 2025
That almost feline fickleness mostly has to do with the structure of the comet itself, which can change over time.
—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill.
—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fickleness
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But Exxon is a disciplined producer able to weather the volatility.
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This pattern of extreme volatility is common in high-profile IPOs, where initial hype often inflates share values.
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During the pandemic, Lowe, the father of two boys, wrestled with establishing safety measures at Benjamin, and he was struck by the arbitrariness of many health protocols.
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To live in greater Los Angeles is to embrace the arbitrariness of it all.
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Scientific and engineering advances don't do well in the face of such wild swings and inconstancy.
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Europeans, awakened to the danger of American inconstancy, are scrambling to spend trillions more on defense in coming years.
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The stylistic eccentricities have been dialed back, including the use of old Hollywood film clips to reflect the action and possibly the thoughts of its main character, a cinephile from space, who is both practicing and enacting the work of a private detective.
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Designers embraced audacious concepts, leading to iconic cars like the Corvette and Thunderbird, alongside numerous eccentricities.
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Others are chasing answers for chronic bloating, pain or irregularity that no doctor has been able to explain.
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The immediate trigger for Saturday’s protest was the reported irregularity in a recent exam that quickly became a broader outlet for frustration over India’s education system and limited job opportunities.
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More specifically, genres, whether spoken or written, reflect the changeability of their formal characteristics in connection to changes in the situation and the actions relevant to these genres.
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Dripping glitter, shimmering adhesive crystals, dramatic slashes of eyeliner and smudges of eyeshadow—there was a playful, shifting experimentalism here, to signal the young characters’ changeability and ingenuity.
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And agents introduce a new form of flakiness stemming from the fact that LLMs are non-deterministic.
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Others mistakenly describe these acts as flakiness, disobedience, laziness, or personal failure in the absence of context.
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“Fickleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fickleness. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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