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Apparently on a whim, he ordered the withdrawal of American troops from Somalia, where they were involved in the war against the jihadist group al-Shabab - a decision reversed by the Biden administration.

But Team Badenoch argue they don’t knowingly throw rules set down by the national party out of the window on a whim – unlike their opponents -- and they are ruthlessly focused on talking to those with a vote in this election.

Musk brings up the idea of colonizing Mars so often that it can properly be regarded as a whim of iron.

It’s a whim because he plainly hasn’t pondered soberly the obstacles in the way.

Von Furstenberg says she wrote the words on a print of the photograph on a whim because she thought the box looked too bare.