caprice

Example Sentences

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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

But to mitigate the enormous disruption, the transition cannot be left entirely to the caprice of employers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023

Had all those years, as well as Mom and Dad’s time on the street—not to mention their current life in an abandoned tenement—been a caprice inflicted on us by Mom?

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls