whim
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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
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
Institutional judgment becomes meaningless when operational directives can be rewritten on a whim overnight.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Since then, Congress has created dozens of agencies whose leaders could not be terminated at the White House’s whim.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Then, seemingly on a whim, he even bowed to Mimi.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
Staying on as an investor in a public company means being subject to the whims of the stock market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
They’re expressions of his whims, and as such they’re totally ineffective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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
Is he guided by consistent principles, or by the whims of the moment?
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
In reality, it made no difference to her where she ate, and not at regular hours but according to the whims of her appetite.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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