arbitrariness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arbitrariness
Noun
  • Both firms exhibit extreme volatility in bear markets, but Palantir's recovery has been more substantial, possibly due to its improving profitability and operational metrics.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Household confidence shaken Market volatility is having a significant effect on savers in Sweden, a country renowned for its high level of household savings in investment funds among its 10.5 million population.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • That fateful connection would snowball into a lifelong friendship and artistic partnership that thrives on curiosity, trust and unabashed eccentricity.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Through the divination trial, the audience learns that much of Lilia’s eccentricity comes from her experience living life out of order, giving more context to moments earlier in the season, where the character would blurt out what seemed to be random statements.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Satellite orientation irregularities may occur; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites is possible.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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“Arbitrariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arbitrariness. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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