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Noun
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While the household survey tends to have more volatility, May’s readings from that particular wing of the report rang more alarm bells than usual.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025 -
Amir Levy/Getty Images What Happens Next The coming weeks are likely to see rising volatility as Israel weighs its next move amid growing friction with Iran.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Years of naval inconstancy with repair work drove Vigor Industrial—a once vibrant and growing maritime conglomerate—into the welcoming arms of hedge funds, which wasted no time in striping the company of value.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
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In the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands, as the center-left was evolving, the label was most effectively applied to those telegenic figures—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, John Edwards—who were suspected of ideological inconstancy and of substituting polls for principles.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2022
Noun
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For comparison, Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0167 and is therefore close to circular; at the other extreme, an orbital eccentricity of 1 would be parabolic.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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Class struggle is reflected in the way that the back-alley heavy, Atticus Hawk, dismisses the ivory-tower eccentricity of the occult specialist Scholar Vitali.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Compounding investor worries are governance issues, including previous allegations of accounting irregularities, delays in SEC filings, and scrutiny from short sellers.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Computer vision uses hardware—like cameras, in this case—and pairs their input with an AI algorithm to identify irregularities or violations.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
3 June 2025
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In the future, do not allow Ruth to borrow your car, and remember her flakiness when making plans.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
28 May 2025
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And this can lead to greasiness, dryness, flakiness or itchiness (or some combination of the four) of the scalp.—
Mara Santilli,
Flow Space,
22 May 2025
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“Fickleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fickleness. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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