vagary
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Eulabee’s own attention moves with lifelike vagary, dilating on anxieties and anticipation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
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
Sodium-ion technology is notable because it could free batteries from the vagaries of the lithium price cycle, the analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Some lawmakers, seeming to recognize the risks of letting the vagaries of aging and health determine the country’s political fate, have opted to bow out.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026
The vagaries of the schedule are something that figures to hamper MLS teams all season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
A once proud, close-knit community has been left to the vagaries of absentee landlords, rising deprivation and residents who often don't want to be here.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Even granted the vagaries of spelling in the seventeenth century, why should Newton choose to emphasize this word?
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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