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on a whim
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on a whimadverb
done without thinking seriously about the consequences.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of on a whim in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of on a whim in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of on a whim in a Sentence
I know that my résumé... is usually reduced to' She didn't become the governor of Georgia.' But it is important to understand all the things I did to prepare for that contest, that campaign was not a whim. It was the outcome of decades of deliberate work building my capacity to serve as many people as I could, in the most effective way possible.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
You're pretty much at the whim of whoever is going to be able to cover that for you, ff you feel brave enough to even enter the establishment to say, 'yes, this was me, no, this isn't who I am,'.
Robert Bork America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids and school children could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government.
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