An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.
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Examples for "notion "
Examples for "notion "
1 Tilda's voice: 'The notion of Manifest Destiny is historically suspect, of course.
2 He initially held the traditional notion that economic fundamentals led market moves.
3 Systematic reviews support the notion that sleep is important for children's health.
4 You can deduce no single actual particular from the notion of it.
5 In essence, we need to unpick an essentially imperialist notion of power.
1 And they fell in gayly with her whimsy and called her T.O.
2 In daylight it probably looked like a toy: a rich man's whimsy .
3 He danced there like the whimsy sunbeam of a shaken water below.
4 It crackles with wit, warmth and whimsy without a hint of pretension.
5 What farther whimsy of an unkind Fate had prompted his long walk?
1 They mout get some whimsey into their heads, an' come this ways.
2 There's a story that once in a spirit of whimsey , Capt.
3 He is a man of whimsey and temper and also mood.
4 It is a whim of Mrs. Grundy's, who is all whimsey .
5 Once more the smile on her lips announced a whimsey .
1 His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim .
2 Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim .
3 Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim .
4 Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim .
5 The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
6 The whole place proclaimed itself to be the whim of a despot.
7 To Christophe the remark was nothing but the whim of a moment.
8 This was no mere passing whim on the part of the emperor.
9 I don't like the idea of things being changed by a whim .
10 This tobacco had been a whim of mine in more prosperous times.
11 Then a whim seized her, and she sat up, grave and eager.
12 I traveled the world to follow my interests on the slightest whim .
13 He will be wealthy, and in a position to gratify any whim .
14 Lots of people have discovered their hidden gifts by following a whim .
15 It was reopened on a Tudor whim ; it closes on Cromwell's command.
16 He rushed to the whim -room , but found the boy still sleeping soundly.
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