fickleness

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Noun
  • President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his trade war and threatened to levy even higher tariffs on China this week, as markets endured a third day of intense volatility.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
  • While gold remains a traditional safe-haven asset, its short-term performance may be subject to volatility as markets respond to unfolding events.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 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
Noun
  • Lives Lived: John Peck, known as the Mad Peck, was a cultural omnivore whose work as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic and disc jockey had a dry humor and an ornate eccentricity.
    German Lopez, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In a stroke of luck, however, the two features have aligned to create a satisfying image that is helping scientists understand the eccentricities of star formation.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Usually, the only way to identify these individuals is through irregularity reports submitted by test supervisors.
    Scott White, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Last year, Netanyahu was fitted with a pacemaker after a heart irregularity was detected.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • With so much nourishment, the Shu Uemura lipstick can also reduce flakiness, improve texture, and some women have even reported less noticeable fine lines around the lips.
    Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Inflammation and flakiness may result.
    Matt Fuchs, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
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