whim
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"It came about on a whim as I love horses," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fell Thursday as digital assets traded in step with stock markets and at the whim of developments in the Iran war.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
They’re not just wasting their money on a whim.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
So on a whim, we began to look into buying a house in Serbia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
One newspaper editor had sagely, if cynically, observed that “the usual custom is for the capital of new empires to be selected by the whim or caprice of a despot.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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