caprice
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Their caprice is not divine mystery; it is bald fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
“Marie-Jeanne became a way to think about the private Fanon,” Shatz said, “his vanity and contradictions, his caprice and his warmth. I felt that through her I could offer a more humane portrait.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
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
She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne m4nagdre, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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
She relished the indomitable nature of our quirks and caprices, their capacity to survive even egregious catastrophe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
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
When Kinga finally has a revelation, it’s triggered by home videos, records of the past untouched by the caprices of the mind.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
She had room in her heart but for two things, Braine and money to spend on her caprices.
From The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan by Harold MacGrath
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