unpredictable
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Ivorian scientists have been working to develop a cocoa bean tough enough to survive the unpredictable weather events that man-made climate change has unleashed around the globe.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
To investigate this, they used an unpredictable mild stress model, which exposes animals to varying low-intensity stressors and produces changes that resemble certain features of human depression.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
A wave of intense and, at times, unpredictable storms exacerbated by the El Niño weather pattern has killed dozens, shuttered major airports and wiped out crops and infrastructure across a swathe of East Asia.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
“The stock market feels different right now because it is different. Winners keep winning, losers get pounded, earnings reactions are increasingly unpredictable and larger,” Cohn said in a post on X.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Chaos theory says that even a small change in initial conditions can lead to wildly unpredictable results.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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