vagary
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Eulabee’s own attention moves with lifelike vagary, dilating on anxieties and anticipation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
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
If they mess up — or even if the issue is just a vagary of your own personal preferences — it’s only right to give them another chance.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
This common meaning for outrage actually grows out of a vagary of folk etymology.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2014
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
And if so, just who, on a day when the vagaries of links golf on the blustery Lancashire coast propelled several players into realistic contention and just as quickly swept their aspirations aside.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The genius of hit songs, beyond technical artistry—and the vagaries of timing—is the ability to mainline emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The vagaries of the schedule are something that figures to hamper MLS teams all season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
The space-equipment supplier’s rapid rise reflects just how much small aerospace and defense stocks depend on the vagaries of geopolitics and government contracts.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Everybody was essentially himself—was riotously busy fulfilling the vagaries of human nature.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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