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caprice

[kuh-prees] / kəˈpris /


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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

One theatergoer’s mindless fluff is another theatergoer’s inspired caprice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

He was followed by Johnnie Voight, Cleve Goins, and Doc Ratteree but the order of their entry was subject to caprice and alteration.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

What makes tournament golf compelling is that it’s a meritocracy posed against nature’s inherent caprices.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022

You would not see that I had faults and caprices.

From A Romance of Wastdale by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason




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