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adj.given to sudden behavior change

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Like every other capricious pillar of global capital in the world, the IOC insists that their giant money-printing operation is actually a bringer of peace and progress—a harbor for an open world that spreads democracy far and wide.

THE IOC’S TREATMENT OF MISSING CHINESE TENNIS STAR PENG SHUAI IS DISTURBINGLY ON-BRANDCORBIN SMITHNOVEMBER 29, 2021THE DAILY BEAST

They’re at the mercy of policy-making and enforcement which can seem capricious or even be downright mystifying.

AMAZON SELLERS BATTLE THE GIANT’S ALGORITHM-BASED POLICY- AND DECISION-MAKINGKIM DAVISNOVEMBER 12, 2021SEARCH ENGINE LAND

Since 1971, the capricious and excessive use of solitary confinement has only intensified in America’s prisons.

50 YEARS AFTER ATTICA, PRISONERS ARE STILL PROTESTING BRUTAL CONDITIONS. WILL AMERICA FINALLY LISTEN?HEATHER ANN THOMPSONSEPTEMBER 8, 2021TIME

As the action accelerates, Marsac — at times a bit slow on the uptake — keeps wondering about the capricious, headstrong and infuriating Mademoiselle de la Vire.

FLASHING BLADES, SECRET PASSAGES, MISTAKEN IDENTITIES: ‘A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE’ IS A CLASSIC ADVENTURE TALEMICHAEL DIRDASEPTEMBER 1, 2021WASHINGTON POST

He maintained that the first allegiance of a Catholic was to the example of Christ, not to the church’s hierarchy and what he considered its capricious and outmoded rules.

HANS KÜNG, CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN WHO CHALLENGED PAPAL AUTHORITY, DIES AT 93MATT SCHUDELAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST

The nose more particularly appears and disappears in a capricious way in the drawings of the same child.

CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY

But this sudden blow was a reminder that fate had been capricious to spoiled darlings before.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

Mariamne had grown more fantastic, and capricious, and wayward than ever.

BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS

There was also a moral reaction, and the boy became capricious, irritable, and unlike his former self.

THE LIFE &AMP; LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY

No, give me deserts or precipices,—anything fixed and solid is better than this capricious, ever-changing sea.

GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON

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