Vagaries
noun
Unexpected changes or events that can affect a situation, plan etc in a way that you cannot control.
He had been living outside for five years, subject to the vagaries of the weather.
Often appears as...
- vagaries of the weather
- vagaries of life
noun
Unexpected changes or events that can affect a situation, plan etc in a way that you cannot control.
He had been living outside for five years, subject to the vagaries of the weather.
Often appears as...
- vagaries of the weather
- vagaries of life
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Unpredictability
Vagaries often imply changes that are unpredictable and cannot be planned for.
The farmer's crops were at the mercy of the vagaries of the season.
Pro Tip 2/3Life's Uncertainties
'Vagaries of life' is a common phrase that captures the unpredictable nature of daily existence.
She moved abroad prepared for the vagaries of life in a new country.
Pro Tip 3/3Challenging Control
Vagaries represent elements outside of one's control, often leading to challenges.
The shipping industry must constantly adapt to the vagaries of international trade laws.
Pro Tip 1/3Unpredictability
Vagaries often imply changes that are unpredictable and cannot be planned for.
The farmer's crops were at the mercy of the vagaries of the season.
Pro Tip 2/3Life's Uncertainties
'Vagaries of life' is a common phrase that captures the unpredictable nature of daily existence.
She moved abroad prepared for the vagaries of life in a new country.
Pro Tip 3/3Challenging Control
Vagaries represent elements outside of one's control, often leading to challenges.
The shipping industry must constantly adapt to the vagaries of international trade laws.
Pro Tip 1/3Unpredictability
Vagaries often imply changes that are unpredictable and cannot be planned for.
The farmer's crops were at the mercy of the vagaries of the season.
Pro Tip 2/3Life's Uncertainties
'Vagaries of life' is a common phrase that captures the unpredictable nature of daily existence.
She moved abroad prepared for the vagaries of life in a new country.
Pro Tip 3/3Challenging Control
Vagaries represent elements outside of one's control, often leading to challenges.
The shipping industry must constantly adapt to the vagaries of international trade laws.
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The real story behind...
If the weight of water displaced by the vessel below the keel is equivalent to the vessel's weight, whatever is above the keel will remain afloat above the waterline. This sounds a lot like another story involving Archimedes and a bathtub, and it's possible that's because they're actually the same story, twisted by the vagaries of history.
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Putting a Species on the...
per square kilometers and this does not make make it easy for conservation my left this is the photo of the volcanoes national park and it clearly shows you the line of how people have pushing vagary culture in e 94 when genocide happening in my country it
Video examples
The real story behind...
If the weight of water displaced by the vessel below the keel is equivalent to the vessel's weight, whatever is above the keel will remain afloat above the waterline. This sounds a lot like another story involving Archimedes and a bathtub, and it's possible that's because they're actually the same story, twisted by the vagaries of history.
Video examples
Putting a Species on the...
per square kilometers and this does not make make it easy for conservation my left this is the photo of the volcanoes national park and it clearly shows you the line of how people have pushing vagary culture in e 94 when genocide happening in my country it
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Gita Gopinath
Indian Economist
Portfolio investment, often called 'hot money' because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.
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Geoff Dyer
English Writer
One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
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Benjamin N. Cardozo
American Judge
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
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Abhijit Banerjee
American Economist
A universal cash transfer in the form of a minimum guaranteed income would mean that automatically everyone has something to fall back on without having to deal with the vagaries of their local panchayat.
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Dambisa Moyo
Zambian Economist
The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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Luciana Berger
British Politician
We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.
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Marcus Aurelius
Roman Leader
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Nina Easton
American Journalist
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
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Martin Filler
American Critic
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
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Gita Gopinath
Indian Economist
Portfolio investment, often called 'hot money' because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.
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Geoff Dyer
English Writer
One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
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Benjamin N. Cardozo
American Judge
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
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Abhijit Banerjee
American Economist
A universal cash transfer in the form of a minimum guaranteed income would mean that automatically everyone has something to fall back on without having to deal with the vagaries of their local panchayat.
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Dambisa Moyo
Zambian Economist
The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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Luciana Berger
British Politician
We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.
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Marcus Aurelius
Roman Leader
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Nina Easton
American Journalist
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
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Martin Filler
American Critic
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
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