vagary

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An interesting, sciencey explanation of the Y chromosome and sex distinction in all it’s vagary and confusion, and the strange trip through the behaviors of the life span of the males of many species.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019

It covers the whole wide world of early-19th-century trade, and it evinces a worldly acceptance of human disparity and vagary.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018

This common meaning for outrage actually grows out of a vagary of folk etymology.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2014

If Kiprotich's victory was surprising, it also represented the vagary and possibility of running 26.2 miles.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2012

As Sullivan saw it, “Burnham came out of his somnambulistic vagary and joined in. He was keen enough to understand that ‘Uncle Dick’”—meaning Hunt—“had done him a needed favor.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson