arbitrariness

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Noun
  • Those numbers were not adjusted for seasonal volatility.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • However, with provocative policies already lining up from the incoming US administration, there are concerns that this year will see periods of turbulence and volatility.
    Daniel Webber, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Earth's orbital eccentricity is 0.017; Mars' is 0.055, and Mercury's is 0.206.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Indeed, for all his film’s eccentricities — Blue Velvet’s freaky Frank Booth huffing, well, whatever that stuff is, Lost Highway’s spine-chilling Mystery Man, or Wild at Heart’s Sailor kung fu-kicking in a snakeskin jacket — Lynch wasn’t trying to be controversial.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The audits of all four high school foundations, which provided the district with $5 million in funding to support students in the last school year, were spurred by a report circulated by Canyon Crest Academy students alleging financial irregularities within the CCA Foundation.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Short-seller Hindenburg Research accused the company of accounting irregularities in a detailed report last year.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 22 Jan. 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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