whim
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Marine Corps officer from Dayton, Ohio, who had bought three tickets on a whim and promptly forgot about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
That provision could give him more flexibility to impose tariffs on a whim, rather than the months of investigations required by Section 301.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Institutional judgment becomes meaningless when operational directives can be rewritten on a whim overnight.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Kjell-Ivar Skogmo and his group of four traveled from Norway on a whim for a 10-day trip to the U.S. as soon as they were able to secure tickets through a secondary market.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
It could simply be that a meaningless whim had suddenly overtaken me at that moment—but that is hardly a convincing way to account for such distinctly odd behaviour.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
They’re expressions of his whims, and as such they’re totally ineffective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
It’s just the latest sign that the launch of a whole ecosystem of ETFs has done little to buttress bitcoin against the whims of mercurial investors.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
A more Zen note was struck by a man named Peter, visiting from California, who does not like Trump but refused to let the president’s whims detract from his D.C. tour.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
Over the years, Cottray has picked up on the more genial whims of celebrity guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
In reality, it made no difference to her where she ate, and not at regular hours but according to the whims of her appetite.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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