as in whimsicality
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Noun
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Here’s another winner from Serena & Lily which plays with pompom accents in neutral hues for a dose of whimsy.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
26 Mar. 2025 -
Spring tablescapes have a way of bringing out our inner whimsy with floral placemats, colorful candlesticks, and now (again) with cabbageware: dishes that look like cabbage.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In 1958, a provincial party chairman weighed in on the term fantasy in a roundtable essay that was published in Sae sedae.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Mar. 2025
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Yet the notion of a business jet operating at Mach 5 remained a sci-fi fantasy.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
22 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
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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“Fancifulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancifulness. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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