arbitrariness

noun

Definition of arbitrarinessnext
as in volatility

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  1. volatility
  2. eccentricity
  3. irregularity
  4. inconstancy
Noun
  • Trump could inject new levels of volatility into what is often described as the world’s most important bilateral relationship, after an election win that comes at a critical moment for the globe’s two largest economies.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Yet, with the race between Harris and Trump exceptionally tight, economists warn of potential volatility ahead, especially if results take days — or even weeks — to finalize.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of volatility
Noun
  • Medium aside, one thing remains consistent: Campbell’s eccentricities are palpable but never alienating.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Alonge captured the eccentricity of Nigeria’s earliest social and political class in the 1970s.
    Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of eccentricity
Noun
  • Trump and his supporters, including billionaire Elon Musk, have spread misinformation about election irregularities and fraud in Pennsylvania, despite officials saying their claims have no merit.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Because of the decentralized electoral system, an individual state does have the power to delay or subvert the process of appointing electors—perhaps by alleging voting irregularities—even in the event of a clear popular-vote victory for a certain candidate in that state.
    Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of irregularity
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  • Years of naval inconstancy with repair work drove Vigor Industrial—a once vibrant and growing maritime conglomerate—into the welcoming arms of hedge funds, which wasted no time in striping the company of value.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands, as the center-left was evolving, the label was most effectively applied to those telegenic figures—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, John Edwards—who were suspected of ideological inconstancy and of substituting polls for principles.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
Definition of inconstancy
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