vagary

Example Sentences

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It covers the whole wide world of early-19th-century trade, and it evinces a worldly acceptance of human disparity and vagary.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018

Insider trading is really not well defined so that it can escape the vagary between the well informed participant and the person who is actually using knowledge that is withheld deliberately to mislead traders.

From New York Times • May 23, 2016

This common meaning for outrage actually grows out of a vagary of folk etymology.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2014

If Kiprotich's victory was surprising, it also represented the vagary and possibility of running 26.2 miles.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2012

As Sullivan saw it, “Burnham came out of his somnambulistic vagary and joined in. He was keen enough to understand that ‘Uncle Dick’”—meaning Hunt—“had done him a needed favor.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson