as in volatile
likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly
unpredictable spring weather that makes it really hard to know what to wear
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Recent Examples of unpredictable
He is polished in public, messy in private, and completely unpredictable when pushed.
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
Managing retail inventories and maintaining proper levels in line with consumer demand is challenging and subject to often unpredictable, fluctuating sales trends, fast-moving fashion cycles, and shipping issues like bottlenecks.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 26 Mar. 2025
EssayPro’s bidding system gives students a choice but creates frustrating quality inconsistency and unpredictable pricing.
—Rowan Briggs, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
And keep learning to lead for an unpredictable future.
—Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
Managing retail inventories and maintaining proper levels in line with consumer demand is challenging and subject to often unpredictable, fluctuating sales trends, fast-moving fashion cycles, and shipping issues like bottlenecks.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 26 Mar. 2025
EssayPro’s bidding system gives students a choice but creates frustrating quality inconsistency and unpredictable pricing.
—Rowan Briggs, Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
And keep learning to lead for an unpredictable future.
—Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unpredictable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpredictable
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In Haiti, there hasn’t been a general election in nearly a decade; more than a million have been displaced by armed gang violence and the country’s volatile capital is on the verge of collapse.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article For about nine minutes, Tiara Lee-Roberts and her girlfriend had a volatile argument on the 69th Street Red Line platform, prosecutors alleged, until Lee-Roberts put a gun to the woman’s neck and shot her.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Hers is the kind of face that inspires directors to tight framing — gleaming, as if smoothed from marble, and yet somehow pliant, changeful.—
Jordan Kisner Jack Davison,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2022
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Rigorous, blustery winter; winding sleety spring; hot, moist enervating summer; changeful autumn with its dog-days; these are absolutely unknown.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Jan. 2023
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Sudan has faced years of chaos and war Sudan, a nation in northeastern Africa, has been unstable since a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocratic President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir in 2019.—
Samy Magdy and Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Vietnam already has a shortage of labor, and the situation in Bangladesh is unstable at this time.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Unpredictable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpredictable. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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