capriciously

Example Sentences

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The pursuit for better never ends and capriciously it brings no guarantees of improvement.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

If he didn’t, then he’d be doing this capriciously to inflict pain on his father — which would be indefensible, wouldn’t it?

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

“But I think it unlikely that certifiers would have capriciously changed the death certificate.”

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021

The Continental Divide takes an indistinct course across Yellowstone’s volcanic highlands, capriciously assigning drainages to the watersheds of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2019

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