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also whimsey
as in humor
a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action
the pop singer's latest whimsy is that she has acting talent
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Recent Examples of whimsy
Puerto Rico’s rising star Pink Pablo feels like the new prince of dark-wave urbano and reggaeton, and he’s known for crafting super cinematic videos to go with his songs, which often straddle moodiness and a little whimsy.
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Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2025
One part of the menu that remains a place of unexpected whimsy, however?
—Oset Babür-Winter, Vogue, 8 July 2025
While the Italian American restaurant Void does whimsy well, most evident with its Spaghetti Uh-O’s and No-Lört, it’s become one of the best restaurants in Chicago right now, writes Tribune food critic Louisa Kung Liu Chu.
—Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Part of the problem is that the whimsy and fantasy both feel rather leaden — the power of Dahl’s story doesn’t really register.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
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Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2025
One part of the menu that remains a place of unexpected whimsy, however?
—Oset Babür-Winter, Vogue, 8 July 2025
While the Italian American restaurant Void does whimsy well, most evident with its Spaghetti Uh-O’s and No-Lört, it’s become one of the best restaurants in Chicago right now, writes Tribune food critic Louisa Kung Liu Chu.
—Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Part of the problem is that the whimsy and fantasy both feel rather leaden — the power of Dahl’s story doesn’t really register.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whimsy
Noun
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Clarkson delivered with her trademark blend of down-to-Earth humor and out-of-this-world vocals.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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After all the fussing and fidgeting exerted in trying to nail just the right mix of comic book action, comedy and pathos, the movie emerges as a tone-deaf mishmash of underdeveloped characters, half-baked humor and unhatched plotting drenched in CGI overkill.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
12 July 2025
Noun
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In the four decades since James introduced the notion, John Henryism has found much broader cultural traction.—
Leslie Jamison,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Just as Wall Street was warming up to the hope that the U.S. economy was bulletproof amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, the recent batch of indicators has punctured that notion.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
3 Aug. 2025
Noun
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No business can operate successfully in a system where the president's personal whims determine regulatory outcomes and government access.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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Let victims testify: the parents who watched their kids regress academically, the business owners bankrupted by whims, the families torn apart by isolation.—
Houman Hemmati,
Oc Register,
20 July 2025
Noun
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Twenty-seven years ago, Armageddon benefited from a marketing campaign that left a lasting impression.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
25 July 2025
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Older people often bring up how the U.S. helped Kosovo, and that left a strong impression.—
Kathleen Peddicord,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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First the couldn’t: This isn’t fantasy baseball, so there was nothing Stearns could really do to jolt the top half of the lineup.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Working with a seaview is not just a fantasy for Hemingsworth clients, but a reality.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Vape shops have spread across the American retail landscape with a bizarre swiftness, seemingly unbeholden to the same vagaries of inflation, customer demand, and local real estate that bind every other kind of storefront small business in the country.—
Amanda Mull,
The Atlantic,
22 June 2023
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Third, repeaters should prove capable of swapping this data between nodes in a network in a predictable way and not one too subject to the vagaries of chance.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
13 June 2023
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The caprice of the wind was the only reason there was evidence to recover in the first place.—
Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Trump ran as a populist, but his actions in office have built a new élite shaped by his personal preference and caprice.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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Up until this point, harvesters had relied entirely on natural pollinators, like bees, for vanilla plants to produce their coveted beans.—
Sarah Jampel,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 July 2025
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His answers have bee lightly edited for brevity and clarity.—
Langston Wertz Jr,
Charlotte Observer,
28 July 2025
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“Whimsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whimsy. Accessed 9 Aug. 2025.
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