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Noun
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But, the stability rule that requires current spending to be balanced has seemingly led to more volatility in fiscal policy.—
London Business School,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025 -
As the world enters another year of potential volatility in energy and geopolitical uncertainty, Birol said, the IEA offers an important source of objective data.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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For all of Bournemouth’s eccentricity, there is no unique identity that jumps off the page.—
Brett Koremenos,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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However, the large eccentricity means its orbit ranges from as far as 2 astronomical units (300 million km/186 million miles — i.e. twice the Earth–sun distance) from its star to as close as 0.75 AU (112 million km/69.7 million miles).—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The brothers recently returned to the U.S. after a judge said the case in Romania could not go to trial because of various legal and procedural irregularities tied to the prosecution.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2025
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In December 2024, however, a Romanian appeals court ruled that the human trafficking case against the Tates could not go to trial due to several legal and procedural irregularities from the prosecutors, per the Associated Press.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
20 Mar. 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 4 Apr. 2025.
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