capricious
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From Martin's capricious management to the cold-blooded pragmatism of McInnes is some leap for Rangers.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
You really see this change, and yet it doesn’t feel capricious because he has been listening the whole time.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 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
The appellate court noted that Draper made “extreme and bizarre comments” at a post-trial motions hearing and, during the trial, issued “arbitrary and capricious evidentiary rulings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
“Chaplain,” he announced with magisterial rigidity, “we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men. Are you guilty or innocent?”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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