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inconstancy





NOUN
fluctuation
Synonyms
STRONGEST
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“Then watch bewildered as the waves of our inconstancy lap them away, along with the footprints of the builder.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

They are the Americans who work in our military, a call to service that doesn’t indulge inconstancy or caprice.

From Washington Times Nov. 11, 2020

Yet the movie’s biggest drawback is its tonal inconstancy.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2018

The only constant in Of Montreal’s two-decade career is inconstancy: The band’s ringleader, Kevin Barnes, tries out new musical theories at a radical clip, regularly discarding entire worldviews from album to album.

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2018

For Darwin’s theory to work, heredity had to possess constancy and inconstancy, stability and mutation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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