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Noun
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A lot of that comes from knowing and experience, but that doesn’t mean there’s reason to let go of the whimsy.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
7 Mar. 2025 -
Certain ideas — a sweater made of flyaway feathers, a gradient that molted into florals around the collar and dresses with untamed bows — hinted at a greater whimsy lying somewhere below the surface.—
Jacob Gallagher,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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An arena spectacle with WWE auras is unusual for Dungeons & Dragons, the famously nerdy tabletop game of fantasy heroics and lucky (or unlucky) rolls of dice.—
Eric Francisco,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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The fantasy relevance for tight ends as slow as Helm just isn’t there.—
Steve Bradshaw,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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What few at the time foresaw was that the region could be delivered to China through Trump’s sheer impetuosity, or his inability to think before posting.—
Quico Toro,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2025
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Two centuries later, the Greek historian Polybius contrasted Roman discipline, order, and rationality with Celtic impetuosity, chaos, and passion on the battlefield.—
Michele Gelfand,
Foreign Affairs,
22 June 2021
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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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“Fancifulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancifulness. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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