vagary

Example Sentences

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Only a fool would predict that, considering the vagaries of baseball, not to mention the presence of the defending champion Astros in their very own division.

From Seattle Times

Still, we’ll never really know how many people’s fingerprints are on, say, “Transformers,” that statistic being lost to the winds of time and the vagaries of the Writers Guild’s arbitration process.

From Washington Post

Officials at the National Arboretum say they already have lost a third of their camellia collection to the vagaries of a snowless winter that brought high temperatures of near 80 degrees on Thursday.

From Washington Times

Given the vagaries of variants, shifting work and commuting patterns, and other hard-to-pin-down factors, passenger forecasts are largely guesswork.

From Washington Post

A loan provided by Eximbank to fund the project was denominated in dollars, which made Montenegro, which uses the euro, vulnerable to the vagaries of foreign exchange markets.

From New York Times