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  1. on a whimadverb

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    on a lark

  2. on a whimadverb

    done without thinking seriously about the consequences.

    Synonyms:
    on a lark

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  1. Ted Kennedy:

    Robert Bork America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids and school children could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.

  2. Evelyn Waugh:

    If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.

  3. Kenneth Chang:

    A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

  4. Stacey Abrams:

    I know that my résumé... is usually reduced to' She didn't become the governor of Georgia.' But it is important to understand all the things I did to prepare for that contest, that campaign was not a whim. It was the outcome of decades of deliberate work building my capacity to serve as many people as I could, in the most effective way possible.

  5. James Reston:

    This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.


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