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Recent Examples of inconsistently
Instead, the industry continues to recruit aggressively, vet loosely and train inconsistently.
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Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
UBOs would offer pay, health care, insurance, anti-betting and other protections that states inconsistently provide and give boxers opportunities to sign multiyear contracts.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 Jan. 2026
When Rahm stepped back in inconsistently, even with good intentions, teams could no longer tell when ownership truly belonged to them.
—Alain Hunkins, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
In many cases, survivors’ original experiences of abuse were never fully investigated, leaving little to present under the Act unless courts accept nontraditional forms of evidence, something counties have handled inconsistently.
—Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Jan. 2026
The paper, by the Australia Institute think tank, said some of the measures had yet to be brought into force 29 years later, and others were being inconsistently enforced across different states.
—CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
Stainless steel is a poor conductor, meaning a single-ply pan made of stainless steel would cook inconsistently, with numerous hot and cold spots.
—Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
Immigration judges – who are Justice Department employees, not independent federal judges – have responded inconsistently to Judge Sykes’ order.
—Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 10 Dec. 2025
But some have arguably harmed the abundance and growth potential of natural resources and other species, and even for humans, the rewards of technology are often inconsistently shared.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
UBOs would offer pay, health care, insurance, anti-betting and other protections that states inconsistently provide and give boxers opportunities to sign multiyear contracts.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 Jan. 2026
When Rahm stepped back in inconsistently, even with good intentions, teams could no longer tell when ownership truly belonged to them.
—Alain Hunkins, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
In many cases, survivors’ original experiences of abuse were never fully investigated, leaving little to present under the Act unless courts accept nontraditional forms of evidence, something counties have handled inconsistently.
—Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Jan. 2026
The paper, by the Australia Institute think tank, said some of the measures had yet to be brought into force 29 years later, and others were being inconsistently enforced across different states.
—CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
Stainless steel is a poor conductor, meaning a single-ply pan made of stainless steel would cook inconsistently, with numerous hot and cold spots.
—Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
Immigration judges – who are Justice Department employees, not independent federal judges – have responded inconsistently to Judge Sykes’ order.
—Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 10 Dec. 2025
But some have arguably harmed the abundance and growth potential of natural resources and other species, and even for humans, the rewards of technology are often inconsistently shared.
—Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconsistently
Adverb
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Mountbatten-Windsor's name appears at least several hundred times in the documents, sometimes in news clippings, sometimes in Epstein's private email correspondence and in guest lists for dinners organized by Epstein.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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Hospitals have used what are sometimes called blackout procedures, which can include registering a patient under a pseudonym, removing their name from the hospital directory, or prohibiting staff from even confirming that a patient is in the hospital.—
Claudia Boyd-Barrett,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The city doesn’t have snow plows to clear roads given how infrequently winter weather events occur each year.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Jan. 2026
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The challenge is that NFG options trade very infrequently, and the bid/ask spread is consequently quite wide, so to sell calls an investor needs to have a sense of what the price should be.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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But the White House is also risking a wider fracture over an issue that rarely polarizes the GOP.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Jan. 2026
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Quarterly results rarely show depletion.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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As Sam Stolton reports, the development could — if Google is eventually found to be non-compliant with the rules — pave the way for potential fines as high as 10% of global annual sales, though Brussels regulators seldom levies the maximum penalties.—
Suzanne Lynch,
Bloomberg,
27 Jan. 2026
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Feldman has seldom sounded so companionable.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Two months later, her heart began to beat irregularly.—
Stephanie Armour,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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Two months later, her heart began to beat irregularly.—
Stephanie Armour,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Inconsistently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsistently. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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