fickle

Example Sentences

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Silicon Valley’s hottest startups are competing fiercely as big tech companies contend with fickle investors and hard choices.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“We’re very fickle with the small-cap trade, unfortunately,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide’s Investment Management Group.

From MarketWatch • May 16, 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

And yet Micron shares are falling, closing Wednesday down another 3.4%, to $382.09; investors have a fickle relationship with Micron after years of getting burned by the cyclical nature of the memory business.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

There was, in him, such a simmer of emotions, like chemicals thrown together in an alembic: fear like a sulfur fog, bitterness as sharp as salt, and damned fickle mercury for failure and desperation.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor