erratically
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erratically (comparative more erratically, superlative most erratically)
- In an erratic manner; unsteadily or randomly, unpredictably.
- When I saw the other driver weaving erratically across the road, I decided to keep my distance.
- 2014 February 28, Joseph Berger, “Fast Acquittal for Kennedy, Whose Name Put Prosecutors in Bind”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2022:
- The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.
- 2026 August 13, Nicholas Muhoro, “Dutch Medical Student Sophia Koetsier Vanished in Uganda in 2015. An Unknown Man’s DNA Was Later Found on Her Clothing”, in Skip Boring[2], archived from the original on 14 August 2026:
- Her friends had noticed that Sophia had been behaving erratically over the last few days. Sophia had disclosed that she had bipolar disorder just a few days before, so it was not new, but her friends were still worried.
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