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caprice

[kuh-prees] / kəˈpris /


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Their caprice is not divine mystery; it is bald fact.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

“Marie-Jeanne became a way to think about the private Fanon,” Shatz said, “his vanity and contradictions, his caprice and his warmth. I felt that through her I could offer a more humane portrait.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2024

It told the BBC that COP presidents are "expected to act without bias, prejudice, favouritism, caprice, self-interest, preference or deference, strictly based on sound, independent and fair judgement".

From BBC Nov. 27, 2023

It wasn’t “if” early America would fall back under tyranny, the lawless caprice of monarchy, but when.

From Salon Nov. 24, 2023

She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne ménagère, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

There are plenty of times you don't want to be exposed to the individual prejudices and caprices of human beings.

From Salon Apr. 26, 2025

She relished the indomitable nature of our quirks and caprices, their capacity to survive even egregious catastrophe.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 27, 2024

They’re long accustomed to caprices of Mother Nature that can spoil an entire alfalfa cutting with a downpour or generate an especially big yield with a string of blistering days.

From Seattle Times Nov. 27, 2023

The sculpture made manifest just how closely his work has become lashed to the caprices of global capital.

From New York Times Feb. 9, 2021

It embodies the passions, caprices and enterprises of the community.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey




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