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Like every other capricious pillar of global capital in the world, the IOC insists that their giant money-printing operation is actually a bringer of peace and progress—a harbor for an open world that spreads democracy far and wide.
THE IOC’S TREATMENT OF MISSING CHINESE TENNIS STAR PENG SHUAI IS DISTURBINGLY ON-BRANDCORBIN SMITHNOVEMBER 29, 2021THE DAILY BEAST
They’re at the mercy of policy-making and enforcement which can seem capricious or even be downright mystifying.
AMAZON SELLERS BATTLE THE GIANT’S ALGORITHM-BASED POLICY- AND DECISION-MAKINGKIM DAVISNOVEMBER 12, 2021SEARCH ENGINE LAND
Since 1971, the capricious and excessive use of solitary confinement has only intensified in America’s prisons.
50 YEARS AFTER ATTICA, PRISONERS ARE STILL PROTESTING BRUTAL CONDITIONS. WILL AMERICA FINALLY LISTEN?HEATHER ANN THOMPSONSEPTEMBER 8, 2021TIME
As the action accelerates, Marsac — at times a bit slow on the uptake — keeps wondering about the capricious, headstrong and infuriating Mademoiselle de la Vire.
FLASHING BLADES, SECRET PASSAGES, MISTAKEN IDENTITIES: ‘A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE’ IS A CLASSIC ADVENTURE TALEMICHAEL DIRDASEPTEMBER 1, 2021WASHINGTON POST
He maintained that the first allegiance of a Catholic was to the example of Christ, not to the church’s hierarchy and what he considered its capricious and outmoded rules.
HANS KÜNG, CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN WHO CHALLENGED PAPAL AUTHORITY, DIES AT 93MATT SCHUDELAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The nose more particularly appears and disappears in a capricious way in the drawings of the same child.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
But this sudden blow was a reminder that fate had been capricious to spoiled darlings before.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Mariamne had grown more fantastic, and capricious, and wayward than ever.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
There was also a moral reaction, and the boy became capricious, irritable, and unlike his former self.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
No, give me deserts or precipices,—anything fixed and solid is better than this capricious, ever-changing sea.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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