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Noun
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But the report cautioned that the positive results could change if current economic volatility leads to a deterioration of the jobs market.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025 -
The region has been roiled by volatility and political unrest in the years since, as Ukraine tries to oust Russian forces from Crimea and Donbas.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Subtle irregularities in how the brown dwarfs moved hinted that something unseen was tugging on them—something in an unusual orbit.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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The appeal should include documentation of prior relevant communications and any irregularities in the process to date along with descriptions of the negative impact that termination will have on science and society in general.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 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
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“Arbitrariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arbitrariness. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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