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Every day, there are stories of researchers seeing their life's work being capriciously destroyed without any thought or consideration for the value they bring to the country's economic and social well-being.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2025

The pursuit for better never ends and capriciously it brings no guarantees of improvement.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

If he didn’t, then he’d be doing this capriciously to inflict pain on his father — which would be indefensible, wouldn’t it?

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

The show’s host and judge, Greg Davies, capriciously awards the contestants points, and because no one is eliminated, the horse race becomes part of the fun.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

If Dobzhansky had capriciously trimmed the wings of all the flies in one box, he would have affected their phenotypes—the shape of their wings—without ever touching their genes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee