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Slapping tariffs of 25 percent on other countries on a whim, as Trump did to Canada and Mexico, corrodes the impact economic penalties have to punish real unlawful behavior.
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Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
The driver is king: one hand on the wheel, eyes on the horizon, free to turn down that dusty side road on a whim.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
Ergo, the footwear manufacturers who are intent on scaling operations using these machines aren’t doing so on a whim.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 20 June 2025
But there was also an insistence from the Anfield hierarchy that FSG’s self-sustaining business model should not be shredded on a whim — the player had to be worth the money, and Wirtz was deemed exactly that.
—Gregg Evans, New York Times, 20 June 2025
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Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
The driver is king: one hand on the wheel, eyes on the horizon, free to turn down that dusty side road on a whim.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
Ergo, the footwear manufacturers who are intent on scaling operations using these machines aren’t doing so on a whim.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 20 June 2025
But there was also an insistence from the Anfield hierarchy that FSG’s self-sustaining business model should not be shredded on a whim — the player had to be worth the money, and Wirtz was deemed exactly that.
—Gregg Evans, New York Times, 20 June 2025
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“On a whim.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20a%20whim. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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