fickle
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This is a fickle market, considering that Broadcom reported a 48% increase in sales for its fiscal second quarter from the year-earlier quarter, along with an 85% increase in earnings per share.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
The god of war is fickle, and Russia’s spring and summer offensives could still push Ukraine into crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
There's another more diplomatic challenge which Ternus will have to navigate: how to get on with a US president who is notoriously fickle.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Working with stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, director Kristoffer Borgli is less interested in matters of compatibility than the fickle calculus of cancellation.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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