caprice

But we live now at the intersection of presidential instinct and personal caprice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

It told the BBC that COP presidents are "expected to act without bias, prejudice, favouritism, caprice, self-interest, preference or deference, strictly based on sound, independent and fair judgement".

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023

It wasn’t “if” early America would fall back under tyranny, the lawless caprice of monarchy, but when.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2023

At first, it seemed to be another caprice of two already unusual animals: Flying squirrels and platypuses were found to be fluorescent, absorbing invisible ultraviolet light and re-emitting it in shocking pink or bright cyan.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

Blue-lipped and dinner-plate-eyed, they watched, mesmerized by something that they sensed but didn’t understand: the absence of caprice in what the policemen did.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

He doesn’t abandon art, but he can’t summon the urge to sell himself or his work, to graft his joy in making things onto the caprices of the marketplace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

There are plenty of times you don't want to be exposed to the individual prejudices and caprices of human beings.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2025

They’re long accustomed to caprices of Mother Nature that can spoil an entire alfalfa cutting with a downpour or generate an especially big yield with a string of blistering days.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

West Hollywood was a city of renters who had always been vulnerable to landlords’ caprices: gay men and lesbians but also Russian Jewish immigrants and retirees on fixed incomes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020

For if he had followed Scrope in her ladyship's caprices, Montague had followed him, 'as Amurath to Amurath succeeds.'

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang