whim

CoreWeave has often been at the whim of investors’ shifting sentiment on the artificial-intelligence trade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

It means they can catch casual shoppers who "pop their head around the door" and decide on a whim to get their child vaccinated.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Have you noticed that even though your every whim can be satisfied with the tap of a screen, you feel unsatisfied quite a lot of the time?

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Marine Corps officer from Dayton, Ohio, who had bought three tickets on a whim and promptly forgot about them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

They were thugs and riffraff, deputized at the whim of industrial corporations in the valley.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

Naomi was accustomed to Lisa-Kaindé’s whims long before they became professional artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

It’s just the latest sign that the launch of a whole ecosystem of ETFs has done little to buttress bitcoin against the whims of mercurial investors.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

A more Zen note was struck by a man named Peter, visiting from California, who does not like Trump but refused to let the president’s whims detract from his D.C. tour.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026

Mr. Strausbaugh notes that the artist often chose chess over painting, as the former contains “clear wins and losses, not subject to the whims of taste.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

But the abbot, although generally tolerant of Mendel’s whims, had intervened: a monk coaxing mice to mate to understand heredity was a little too risqué, even for the Augustinians.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee