capricious
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District Judge David O. Carter issued a preliminary injunction, calling HUD’s action arbitrary and capricious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
And he demolishes his own ego by throwing himself into something wild and capricious headfirst.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
He said he "didn't destroy, rip, tear, peel, or remove any part" of the paint and described his arrest as "arbitrary, capricious prosecution".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
While engineers have spent decades trying to create “explainable AI,” a defining characteristic of today’s large language models is that they remain biased black boxes that are capricious in their decision-making.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
It claimed that it had done nothing wrong, that the regulators were being capricious, and announced no special losses on its $20 billion portfolio of subprime loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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