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Recent Examples of unpredictable In today’s world of totally unpredictable weather the adaptable, mobile hunters win the day. Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025 It’s certainly made the vote-offs more unpredictable. Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025 In addition to being excitingly unpredictable, the Draconids are one of the most convenient showers of the year for casual stargazing. Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025 Weather was not the only unpredictable natural force at play. Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unpredictable
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Adjective
  • Hundreds of people were killed in days of violence that shattered Kenya’s status as a stable democracy in a volatile region.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The film tracks their volatile relationship amid Kerr’s professional highs and lows in MMA, including his substance abuse struggles.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Rigorous, blustery winter; winding sleety spring; hot, moist enervating summer; changeful autumn with its dog-days; these are absolutely unknown.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Hers is the kind of face that inspires directors to tight framing — gleaming, as if smoothed from marble, and yet somehow pliant, changeful.
    Jordan Kisner Jack Davison, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • These lasers can produce massive amounts of light, but the beam is often unstable and difficult to control.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But just because everything else is feeling unstable, this is almost the straw that breaks the camel's back for him.
    Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Unpredictable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpredictable. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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