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Recent Examples of unpredictably
According to Concord police, Joyce Richardson called 911 on New Year’s Eve and reported her son had knocked her and her husband over and was behaving unpredictably.
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Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
This phase is when estrogen and progesterone start to fluctuate unpredictably.
—Anna Barton Bradley, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2025
Hypersonic missile-killer race Until now, Europe has pursued two parallel projects aimed at countering hypersonic threats, weapons that travel faster than five times the speed of sound and can maneuver unpredictably, complicating interception.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
Their unpredictably left me exposed to noises like car horns, crying babies and gym bro grunts.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 7 Dec. 2025
Utterly, unpredictably shocking.
—Ew Staff December 5, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Dec. 2025
His floor-mapping intuition in the halfcourt offense might be his greatest strength, but Jokic loves playing unpredictably in the open floor as well.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2025
Their power is drawn in part from acting unpredictably toward a future that has become inherently unknowable and is shaped through force.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025
When winter hits unpredictably with cold mornings, sudden rain and biting winds, layering up is often a losing game.
—New Atlas, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpredictably
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Our boss, who had been whisked off the House floor to a secure location, was only intermittently reachable.—
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For drivers, eastbound Lake Street between State and Wabash will be intermittently closed during non-peak hours.—
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The resulting hodge-podge proves only fitfully compelling.—
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The orchestra seemed only fitfully engaged with Dudamel’s direction—a warning sign amid hoopla.—
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Gutters and vents can also unintentionally guide mice inside.—
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Therapists have long seen how the human drive to avoid pain can unintentionally strengthen it.—
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That was a privilege to have that much time to process something, almost unconsciously but also consciously.—
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What art aims for consciously or unconsciously—that boundary between mystery and what can be known, between the hidden and what can be seen.—
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Though Garfield is attending the RNC reluctantly to give a speech in support of his friend, Congressman James Blaine (Bradley Whitford), for the presidency, his rousing oration inadvertently earns him the nomination.—
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Historically, local shrimp fishers accidentally caught the small porpoises in gill nets, inadvertently killing them.—
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Teachers sent me home assuming that I was hit by a piece of stone accidentally from students playing nearby.—
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For example, in 1928, Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin after examining the mold that had accidentally grown in one of his petri dishes.—
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The following week – fortuitously a bye week for the Knights – Curtis had his first chemo treatment at the Mayo Clinic.—
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But their next drive started fortuitously, when Nix seemingly overthrew a receiver only for the ball to fall into the hands of an awaiting Marvin Mims for a 29-yard gain.—
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Bode will play Greta Mills, Ro’s smart, witty and ambitious research partner who unwittingly becomes entangled in the film’s violent conflict.—
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Well-meaning people who try to control another person’s grief may misunderstand that grief is a singular experience or may be unwittingly trying to assuage their own discomfort.—
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“Unpredictably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpredictably. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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