erratically

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The "Toxic" singer was arrested in March after police spotted her driving erratically on a freeway in Ventura County, near Los Angeles.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

She was arrested on 4 March on a southern California highway after driving her BMW "erratically at a high rate of speed", authorities said.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

“Rebel English Academy” reprises the excoriating humor of that debut, but only erratically.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

“Markets can gyrate and change their opinions regularly, erratically, and are often quite wrong,” said Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income, in emailed comments Friday.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026

Sheep became bumpily sheathed with the stuff so that they looked like big ambulating wasp nests; birds, having absorbed the zoquete in their feathers, labored erratically through the air, almost unable to fly.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols