caprice
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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
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
Karl Marx inveighed against the “murderous, meaningless caprices of fashion.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 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
By the time November comes the year is used to the caprices of the sun and no longer frantically brings out flowers for his gaze or hides them in hurt surprise from his indifference.
From Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm
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