whims

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“It would be absurd to keep going back and forth with the whims of the weather,” Dan Waber, Rainbow Tomatoes Garden’s owner, told Salon Senior Food Editor, Ashlie D. Stevens in June 2025.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

The companies are subject to the whims of the government and have a habit of overproducing, leading to oversupply and falling profits.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

But like his predecessor in the ’70s, Powell has declined to manipulate interest rates at the president’s whims.

From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026

It depends largely on the whims of traders who whip money in and out of the fund.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

“An awful spectacle,” opined The New York Times, a “sacrifice to the whims and theories” of a “coterie of cranks and politicians.”

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover