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

She had taken an amiable caprice to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

I have found some vexed pleasure in practicing caprices, short technical exercises, by the 18th-century violinist Pierre Rode.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2020

Yet of them all, only one was ever driven away by her caprices before she was fully ready to dismiss him.

From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson