caprice
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Their caprice is not divine mystery; it is bald fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
One theatergoer’s mindless fluff is another theatergoer’s inspired caprice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
Had all those years, as well as Mom and Dad’s time on the street—not to mention their current life in an abandoned tenement—been a caprice inflicted on us by Mom?
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
He doesn’t abandon art, but he can’t summon the urge to sell himself or his work, to graft his joy in making things onto the caprices of the marketplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
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
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
When Kinga finally has a revelation, it’s triggered by home videos, records of the past untouched by the caprices of the mind.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
I had seen more of her odd fits and caprices than had the others.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
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