capriciously
Example Sentences
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Department of Housing and Urban Development acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it suspended the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority from managing federal homelessness funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Every day, there are stories of researchers seeing their life's work being capriciously destroyed without any thought or consideration for the value they bring to the country's economic and social well-being.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2025
The pursuit for better never ends and capriciously it brings no guarantees of improvement.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
“We cannot conclude that the Corps acted arbitrarily or capriciously in failing to consider … unspecified alternative bus options that the plaintiffs appear to favor,” Judge Barbara Milano Keenan wrote in a 15-page opinion.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2021
If Dobzhansky had capriciously trimmed the wings of all the flies in one box, he would have affected their phenotypes—the shape of their wings—without ever touching their genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
