caprice

Their caprice is not divine mystery; it is bald fact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

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

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

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

And they don’t want their money riding on the foibles and caprices of human officials.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021

The sculpture made manifest just how closely his work has become lashed to the caprices of global capital.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021

Still, in the absence of any strong religious sentiment, the best dispositions are at the mercy of violent passions, and are subject to the most dangerous caprices.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold