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whim

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She hadn’t planned to study crested rat home life, but one why-not whim changed that.

You chose a trail little bigger than a deer path, followed its whims, thinking and thinking about what seemed important then, the boyfriend.

Finally, organizations such as the Cloud Security Alliance and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation can help find ways for the private sector to use cloud computing globally without being stymied by the whims of digital sovereignty.

She’s talked about using government to create an economy that relies less on the whims of tourism.

I, like everyone else, am subjected to the whims of leaders.

From Ozy

That was 2010, when Williamson was seven, less than two years after painting his first picture on a whim.

And neither he, nor his secret police squad or some lawyer from Detroit, get to change that unilaterally on a whim.

Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?

These demands can increase at whim, and worsen with the birth of a child.

She was distraught and sad walking through a park on Long Island when she joined a drum circle on a whim.

She was not a puffer, but a puffer-whim worked near by, called the Valley puffer.

This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom.

In short, he may gratify his every whim and fancy, without a pang of reposing conscience, or the least jostle of his self-respect.

Here, every stroke was to be recorded, each passing whim and mood registered, as in a book of fate.

She paid no thought to the value of money, never knowing how to resist a whim.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whim, such as: impulse, inclination, vagary, caprice, conceit, and craze.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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