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Six example sentences with erratic, each labelled with its topic.
His free throw stroke turned erratic in March, dropping from ninety percent to barely six of every ten.
Basketball
Erratic trading in the final hour left the closing price three percent above where the whole afternoon had sat.
Finance
The probe returned erratic temperature readings, and engineers traced the fault to a cable rubbing against a heated panel.
Science
Sleep-deprived subjects showed erratic attention, answering quickly for a minute and then missing three cues in a row.
Psychology
Rainfall in the valley has become erratic, with a month's total sometimes arriving in one afternoon.
Environment
The drummer's erratic tempo dragged the ballad and rushed the chorus, so the producer switched to a click track.
Music
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