volatileness

Definition of volatilenessnext

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Noun
  • In her remarks, academy President Lynette Howell Taylor acknowledged the questions many nominees have been asking themselves amid industry contraction, political volatility and global conflict.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Employment data shows continued volatility among women, particularly intersectional groups, well past the pandemic recovery.
    Katica Roy, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In an effort to construct a system of law that could prevent arbitrary outcomes, the court ended up making room for plenty of arbitrariness in who was allowed to live and who was sentenced to die.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The sense of arbitrariness that had previously bewildered and frustrated me was drowned out by excitement and sheer aesthetic pleasure.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Ballot audits by independent observers showed irregularities in the official results.
    Reuters, USA Today, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Maduro has led Venezuela since 2013, presiding over a government widely criticized for authoritarian rule, electoral irregularities, human rights abuses, deep economic collapse and mass emigration.
    Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • For all its ills, social media can also be an entry point for anyone interested in Chicago history and the city’s varied eccentricities.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Lulu’s eccentric confidence — or, better put, her confidence in her own eccentricity — carves out a space for her in an episode that’s otherwise fairly plain, all without a whiff of judgement.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Volatileness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volatileness. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.

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