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Unpredictable   /ˌənprɪdˈɪktəbəl/   Listen
Unpredictable

adjective
1.
Not capable of being foretold.
2.
Unknown in advance.
3.
Not occurring at expected times.  Synonym: irregular.






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"Unpredictable" Quotes from Famous Books



... climbing, nor would there have been any sense in it. Jake figured on circling to the left, and I was glad, for I for one wanted no parts of that disk ship that Polter and Noldi had seen in the other direction. Jake ignored me. He was unpredictable! ...
— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell

... downward and splashed headlong into the water; their parents and the rain and gravitation had performed their part, and from now on fate lay with the super-tads themselves—except when a passing naturalist brought new complications, new demands of Karma, as strange and unpredictable as if from another planet ...
— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe

... and accurate. The loot that the Nipe had been stealing had, at first, seemed to be a hodgepodge of everything. It was unpredictable. Money, as such, he apparently had no use for. He had taken gold, silver, and platinum, but one raid for each of these elements had evidently been enough, with the exception of silver, which had required three raids over a period of four years. Since ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... continue to be in extractive industries, especially oil and gas, mining, and timber with the latter especially causing environmental degradation. Other areas, such as manufacturing and services, are struggling with inadequate infrastructure, unpredictable import/export policies, deteriorating health and education systems, and endemic corruption. A major banking crisis in 2003 shuttered the country's 20 private banks and disrupted the economy. As of 2007, the largest private banks operated under tight restrictions ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... say the campaign of 1812 merited the same success as the others, and that the reason why it turned out otherwise lies in something unnatural, for we cannot regard the firmness of Alexander as something unpredictable. ...
— On War • Carl von Clausewitz



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