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  1. whims

    Cathy Whims is an American chef and restaurateur based in Portland, Oregon. She is a six-time James Beard Foundation Award finalist, and has owned several restaurants in Portland, including Genoa, Nostrana, and the pizzeria Oven and Shaker.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WHIMS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Whims is ranked #85357 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Whims surname appeared 219 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Whims.

    78% or 171 total occurrences were White.
    15% or 33 total occurrences were Black.
    5.9% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of whims in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of whims in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of whims in a Sentence

  1. Ted Cruz:

    Instead of adjusting monetary policy according to whims and getting it wrong over and over again and causing booms and busts, what the Fed should be doing is, number one, keeping our money tied to a stable level of gold.

  2. Van Hollen:

    It's important for investors to know that, because companies that are ultimately controlled by a foreign government are subject to the political whims of that government.

  3. Bill Watterson:

    Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin

  4. Murad Awawdeh:

    By bending to the callous whims of Republican governors in Texas, Arizona and Florida as this country gears up for midterm elections, the Biden Administration has taken multiple steps backwards in time to the cruel immigration policies of Donald Trump.

  5. Ron DeSantis:

    Without a shred of clinical data to support this action, Biden has forced trained medical professionals to choose between treating their patients or breaking the law, this indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. There are real-world implications to Biden’s medical authoritarianism – Americans’ access to treatments is now subject to the whims of a failing president.

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