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capriciously

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

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

Three days later, just as capriciously, the administration changed its mind and rescinded the order.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

We are given the choice of either embracing the proven past or, to quote the rest of the title of Hyde’s capriciously edifying new book, “Getting Past the Past.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2020

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




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