willy-nilly
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The reasons for this jobs stagnation aren’t clear, though one culprit might be the uncertainty created by up-down, willy-nilly tariff policy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
Are top-drawer college football teams and their name, image and likeness collectives simply trying to protect themselves from willy-nilly transfers or are they bullying players to stay put with threats of lawsuits?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
People are no longer buying AI stocks willy-nilly.
From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025
“But at the same time, they can’t just pass the costs on to consumers willy-nilly without thinking about the impact on competition.”
From MarketWatch • Nov. 12, 2025
Tolstoy, of course, as an omniscient narrator, also provides a running commentary, establishing what it was that the combatants were all, willy-nilly, conspiring to bring about.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing willy-nilly
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