peculiar to

idiom

: of, relating to, or found in (only one person, thing, or place)

a custom peculiar to America

Examples of peculiar to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lego and Fortnite teaming up There are also unique risks peculiar to Roblox that investors must consider. —Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023

Judge Presnell’s injunction rested on a doctrine peculiar to First Amendment cases, one that allows judges to strike down overbroad laws because of their chilling effect on others’ speech. —Adam Liptak, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023

Hence some biologists object that human female menopause is merely part of a widespread phenomenon of animal menopause, not something peculiar to humans. —Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019

Although written by hand in the studied artificial cursive peculiar to Meghan Markle, the letter was definitely highly worked in a more substantive way — a complete normality in Royal Family correspondence to have more than one set of eyes on a composition. —Guy Martin, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021

Which, as this series—written and created by Francesca Brill and Luke Watson —regularly suggests, tends to be a condition peculiar to women. —Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021

Machiavelli, writing four centuries earlier, had made a similar point about the gulf, so puzzling and peculiar to politics, between intention and result. —Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020

The things that are scary or chasing the different characters are oftentimes things that are internal and peculiar to that person. —Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023

In reality, the team-building process may bring you a lot of pain—there are some common omissions, like inefficient recruitment, that are peculiar to managers who lack necessary experience. —Roman Kumar Vyas, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023