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Recent Examples of fickleness
Newsom explains his fickleness differently.
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Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
The fickleness of decisions relieved some and cursed others.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
That almost feline fickleness mostly has to do with the structure of the comet itself, which can change over time.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
The fickleness of decisions relieved some and cursed others.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
That almost feline fickleness mostly has to do with the structure of the comet itself, which can change over time.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
For chasers like Olbinski, the monsoon’s fickleness is both a frustration and a thrill.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fickleness
Noun
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Toward the end of this week’s episode, Daisy calls him out on his tendency to make up for volatility with charm.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2026
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The volatility money will pay for an infusion of $300 million into the child care endowment fund, Ritter said.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Extreme violence is now a large part of this repertoire of arbitrariness.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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The execution of Jesus reveals the utter arbitrariness of political power.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Scientific and engineering advances don't do well in the face of such wild swings and inconstancy.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
18 Aug. 2025
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Europeans, awakened to the danger of American inconstancy, are scrambling to spend trillions more on defense in coming years.—
Adam Rasmi,
Time,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Screenwriter Craig Mazin finds a way, however, by smartly retooling Swann’s story for a younger audience, stripping out the text’s more violent eccentricities, while preserving the universally winning curiosity of the premise.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
27 Apr. 2026
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The album is full of strange, brilliant contradictions; Oklou slides masterfully between fun and eccentricity, pump and pathos.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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However, the primary contractor for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost, Northrop Grumman, soon acknowledged there was a manufacturing irregularity.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
27 Apr. 2026
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As an example of this irregularity, between 2000 and 2099, there will be 25 leap days, including the starting year, but in the following three centuries, there will only be 24 leap days.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
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Dripping glitter, shimmering adhesive crystals, dramatic slashes of eyeliner and smudges of eyeshadow—there was a playful, shifting experimentalism here, to signal the young characters’ changeability and ingenuity.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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That changeability brings a need for equally adaptable clothing.—
Nick Hendry,
Robb Report,
19 Sep. 2025
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Others mistakenly describe these acts as flakiness, disobedience, laziness, or personal failure in the absence of context.—
Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
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Gentle exfoliants are essential for all skin types, especially those that are prone to flakiness.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Fickleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fickleness. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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