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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

Kjell-Ivar Skogmo and his group of four traveled from Norway on a whim for a 10-day trip to the U.S. as soon as they were able to secure tickets through a secondary market.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Ojai has long been home to Theosophists, avant-gardists, potters and naturalists joining other outsiders and mystics with a whim for wonder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

“This is a whim of mine it would give me great pleasure, though I can hardly tell why,” Emma wrote to Charles.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

A more Zen note was struck by a man named Peter, visiting from California, who does not like Trump but refused to let the president’s whims detract from his D.C. tour.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026

More reliance on T-bills, however, opens the government to the whims of the market.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

But the abbot, although generally tolerant of Mendel’s whims, had intervened: a monk coaxing mice to mate to understand heredity was a little too risqué, even for the Augustinians.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee