fickle
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Outflanked by cruel and fickle gods at every turn, legendary Greek hero Odysseus outsmarted a one-eyed giant, suffered through the bewitching Sirens’ song and braved the Underworld’s dead denizens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
As SpaceX and Cerebras Systems have shown, investor demand for new stocks can be fickle.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
She’s doing it on grass, a fickle surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
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 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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