whims
Example Sentences
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Wary of being vulnerable to the whims of foreign governments, the European Union is preparing far-reaching new moves to ditch American digital companies and Chinese chips in favour of European alternatives.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
The entire stock market will soon become, for all intents and purposes, the meme-stock market, and your retirement accounts are at the mercy of their whims.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
Things were already difficult for independent producers like the Harden family, who had to weather the whims of corporate farming operations and distributors.
From Salon • May 15, 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
Certain whims that he had ridiculed in Alice were now his own.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
