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Recent Examples of unpredictably
Or behaving unpredictably and expecting acceptance.
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Lauren Rothery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The mobiles are Rower’s untamable creatures, swinging close to heads, shaking and shimmering unpredictably.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The pilots demonstrate CyRo’s capability in scenarios, highlighting its advantages, such as assembly on moving platforms where parts arrive unpredictably, handling transparent and reflective components, and adapting to new geometries without reprogramming.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Its unusual construction, featuring fewer panels than any ball before or since, meant a lack of ‘drag’, so the ball didn’t decelerate properly, and moved unpredictably late.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
As companies scaled, their cloud bills ballooned—often unpredictably.
—Mark Mahle, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Their medusa, or visible jellyfish stage, appears sporadically and unpredictably — a particular location might have them one year and not the next, even if conditions are similar.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 6 Aug. 2025
With our encryption system, a hacker wouldn’t be able to access or understand the video data because it's scrambled using a quantum key that changes unpredictably.
—Yashas Hariprasad, Space.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The Bell test is designed to determine whether the photons are behaving unpredictably, which would provide evidence that they are truly entangled.
—Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2025
Lauren Rothery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The mobiles are Rower’s untamable creatures, swinging close to heads, shaking and shimmering unpredictably.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The pilots demonstrate CyRo’s capability in scenarios, highlighting its advantages, such as assembly on moving platforms where parts arrive unpredictably, handling transparent and reflective components, and adapting to new geometries without reprogramming.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Its unusual construction, featuring fewer panels than any ball before or since, meant a lack of ‘drag’, so the ball didn’t decelerate properly, and moved unpredictably late.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
As companies scaled, their cloud bills ballooned—often unpredictably.
—Mark Mahle, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Their medusa, or visible jellyfish stage, appears sporadically and unpredictably — a particular location might have them one year and not the next, even if conditions are similar.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 6 Aug. 2025
With our encryption system, a hacker wouldn’t be able to access or understand the video data because it's scrambled using a quantum key that changes unpredictably.
—Yashas Hariprasad, Space.com, 6 Aug. 2025
The Bell test is designed to determine whether the photons are behaving unpredictably, which would provide evidence that they are truly entangled.
—Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpredictably
Adverb
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With green shoots that have pink bases, purple flowers appear in early spring and intermittently the rest of the season.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
30 Sep. 2025
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Showers and thunderstorms will continue intermittently through the evening.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Shamet was fitfully productive when played in meaningful spot minutes during the postseason for New York last year.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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This book is a stylish pastiche, as an unnamed woman fitfully reconstructs herself under the thumb of a strange man.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Live ants carry the risk of parasites, while freezing or dehydrating the insects can unintentionally allow harmful bacteria to flourish.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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Leaders should evaluate whether their clinical spaces support deep healing or unintentionally frustrate it.—
Sonia Singh,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The way children unconsciously cover walls in their passions.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
25 Sep. 2025
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Sales teams unconsciously memorize product specs between REM cycles.—
Raghu Para,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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And their luck might not change anytime soon, with Beijing ramping up its reliance on South America — inadvertently aided the US Treasury’s financial lifeline provided to Argentina in recent weeks.—
Alayna Treene,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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The President is dead, and Kate’s husband Hal (Sewell) may have inadvertently killed him.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Despite being the spontaneous, happy-go-lucky friend in the group chat, saying yes to a friend’s get-together could lead to you accidentally having to be in three places at once.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Midway through the third quarter, the three-time WNBA champion headed to the locker room after Sims accidentally stepped on her foot.—
Frank Nunns O'Connell,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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This journey for self-acceptance fortuitously leads to mentorship from the local drag community, showing Adolfo the importance of having the right people in your corner even outside of the ring.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
25 Aug. 2025
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That depth is fortuitously within reach of the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover, which is set to launch to the Red Planet no earlier than 2028 and will carry a drill that can penetrate up to two meters below the planet’s surface.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
17 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Starring Dakota Johnson as an aspiring dancer who unwittingly finds herself surrounded by witches at an elite Berlin dance school, Guadagnino’s take is less Italian giallo and more an exercise in slowly creeping dread.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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As the diplomats in New York recognized, contrary to the claims of Smotrich—and some left-wing critics who have unwittingly accepted his framing—the presence of settlers is not an existential threat to the possibility of territorial compromise.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Unpredictably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpredictably. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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