as in whim
a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action
having no sense of purpose, he was often at the mercy of the strange megrims that sprang into his head
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Recent Examples of megrim
By 1781, the French word migraine entered the English language as the accepted medical term, replacing older words such as megrim .
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Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
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The island nation, vulnerable to the whims of the Atlantic, has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Danish firm Wavepiston to turn those crashing swells into a 50 MW power source.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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In contrast, executive orders are the whims of a single person.—
Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2026
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The person sitting next to me that day was my flat-mate, Alicia Stallings, who, by one the vagaries of history, is now the current professor of poetry at Oxford.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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Anyone who has watched Survivor knows vagaries are the enemy of success, and ultimately the ringleader of Glam, Ciara, still goes down this week.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Megrim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/megrim. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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