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Since the recession, a mercurial job market has made it difficult for many vets to find steady employment.

I think that Michael would hate to be falsely remembered as perfect in retrospect—he was mercurial, impulsive, and intense.

They are superstitious, violent, passionate, mercurial, and secretive, with a greater belief in dragons than in any saint.

But Chechnya has become a republic of fear, the fiefdom of one man: its mercurial 36-year-old president, Ramzan Kadyrov.

But I press on, because my mercurial editor is emailing me, “When are you filing that bitcoin story!??”

Quentin Gray's mercurial color deserted him, and he turned to Seton a face grown suddenly pale.

The usual excited happiness was less obvious, he thought, than usual, the mercurial gaiety wholly absent.

The extreme heat was rather more intense than that of the preceding day, the mercurial column standing for a time at 97 degrees.

Of the influence formerly attributed to the planets, traces survive in such epithets as mercurial, jovial, saturnine.

Of the many forms of mercurial barometer, that perhaps known as Fortins is the best.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mercurial, such as: changeable, effervescent, erratic, impulsive, resilient, and unpredictable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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