caprice
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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
One theatergoer’s mindless fluff is another theatergoer’s inspired caprice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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
What makes tournament golf compelling is that it’s a meritocracy posed against nature’s inherent caprices.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022
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
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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