peculiar to
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: of, relating to, or found in (only one person, thing, or place)
a custom peculiar to America
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The breath-freshener smell that Marks had devised was a combination of laurel leaves—peculiar to the modern sensibility, but not off-putting—and musk.
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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
These particular pitfalls so peculiar to India are in part why European carmakers Fiat and Opel closed up shop.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 July 2025
But the negro resents and utterly repudiates the effort to blacken his good name by asserting that assaults upon women are peculiar to his race.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Or something much narrower: human beings in the twenty-first-century West, with all the values and behavioral quirks peculiar to us.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
These particular pitfalls so peculiar to India are in part why European carmakers Fiat and Opel closed up shop.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 July 2025
But the negro resents and utterly repudiates the effort to blacken his good name by asserting that assaults upon women are peculiar to his race.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Or something much narrower: human beings in the twenty-first-century West, with all the values and behavioral quirks peculiar to us.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Peculiar to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peculiar%20to. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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