curiosa

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Noun
  • The contradictory nature of life’s ephemera—is this not the golden goose of fiction writing?
    Eric Olson September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This elusiveness is all the more alluring given that twenty-second-century researchers have access to a mountain of detail—the ephemera of our digital lives, preserved in Nigerian data centers.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Native to Brazil and other South American and Central American countries, colorful peacock bass were stocked in South Florida canals in the mid-1980s by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to control the population of undesirable exotics like tilapia.
    Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • European exotics were also present.
    Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Made in Ancient Egypt, which opened this month at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, features commemorative stela, golden coffins and masks, and sundry curios created in a style that changed very little down the centuries.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But more and more, Black List darlings wind up as buzzy Netflix curios like They Cloned Tyrone and May December.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With these awards, BAFTA also reasserts its interest in awarding video games and their creators, still a rarity in the usual awards space.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Uniacke, who has two shops on Pimlico Road, is a rarity in the design world.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Curiosa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curiosa. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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