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- noun Plural form of
whim .
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Examples
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To give some lower level State Department flunky that power, based on his or her feelings or whims, is just plain wrong.
Bill aims to strip certain Americans of their citizenship 2010
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Now, investors can move in and out of the fund, potentially forcing the locked-in holders of Giftrust accounts to suffer from the short-term whims of others.
Goodbye to Giftrust, a Rare Fund That Locked In Its Holders Chuck Jaffe 2011
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Omaha headquarters, and no attempt to please the short-term whims of
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Omaha headquarters, and no attempt to please the short-term whims of
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But to so easily ignore the way such privacy concerns (as part and parcel of fundamental rights of individuals) are formed and to portray them as mere bureaucratic whims is rather misplaced and makes the original poster’s argument, or indeed understanding of the European side of things, largely unconvincing.
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Because I really don’t think the people with power generally think beyond satisfying the short term whims of profit holders and making a crap load of money so they can live their ridiculous lifestyles.
Being Poor is Hoping the Toothache Goes Away. « Whatever 2007
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When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride.
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In this decision, the problem is that when the court begins to look like just another legislature, voting its personal whims, which is what legislatures are supposed to do, in the long-term, I think it at least hurts within the judiciary.
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In the sorry record of the history of mankind's ethics-with a few rare, and unsuccessful, exceptions'moralists have regarded ethics as the province of whims, that is: of the irrational.
The Virtue of Selfishness Rand, Ayn 1961
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His will and his whims are her laws; as he changes, so must she.
By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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