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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.
—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
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
Noun
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Although the remainder of the summer is expected to see volatility in volumes when compared to last year, the differences appear to normalize by the early fall.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
9 June 2026
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Fast-response storage for unstable grids The shift to renewable energy and electrification is increasing pressure on power networks, especially as grid volatility rises across Europe and EU requirements around grid codes and resilience frameworks tighten.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
9 June 2026
Noun
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To live in greater Los Angeles is to embrace the arbitrariness of it all.—
Meghan Daum,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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In both novels, young people are trying to figure out how life works, confounded by the arbitrariness of what is presented to them as natural.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Scientific and engineering advances don't do well in the face of such wild swings and inconstancy.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
18 Aug. 2025
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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
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Where the movie’s true eccentricity comes in is in its combination of breezy comedy with shocking brutality and gore, perhaps most exemplified in an oddly casual moment in a morgue where Seagal and Wayans find a clue in the form of a serial number on a dead woman’s breast implant.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
5 June 2026
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Luna spends the day in the socially conscious sign of Aquarius, shifting the emotional tone toward intellect, perspective, eccentricity and detachment.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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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.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 June 2026
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But there is also the question of Liverpool adapting to him, and whether a squad of players who pressed with irregularity last season can be whipped into shape.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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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.—
Tham Thi Nguyen,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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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.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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And agents introduce a new form of flakiness stemming from the fact that LLMs are non-deterministic.—
Ethan Pronev,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Others mistakenly describe these acts as flakiness, disobedience, laziness, or personal failure in the absence of context.—
Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Fickleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fickleness. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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