as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit
an overuse of slow motion is one of the filmmaker's more annoying erraticisms
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Noun
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The only trick now is for the league to get a team to the final Monday night of the season and actually cut down the nets.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026 -
Eating a balanced diet should do the trick for the majority.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The best Rockies lineups have always offered a blend of characteristics.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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Stanford School of Medicine prohibits unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In an at-home experiment, participants completed psychological profiles that measured the strength of their self-control trait.—
Francine Russo,
Scientific American,
28 Mar. 2026
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That trait, mixed with his undying and lifelong love for the organization, can yield very good results.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Nor does Thomas, with all his erudition and vatic mannerisms, manage to have with his son anything close to the loving, reciprocal relationship that Max has with Emmie.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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His young nephew provided the entertainment, whacking a plastic ball around with a toy club on the lawn, replicating pro golf mannerisms a little too closely.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Jude relocates this tale of troubled conscience to present-day Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and subjects it to a corrosively cynical twist.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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Fans can expect a twist on ballpark favorites, like the Tigers Tail footlong corn dog, and diverse local favorites, including pierogi nachos.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The unexpectedly weird shows, though, their individual peculiarities can be fascinating.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2026
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The peculiarity of Ouédraogo’s seemingly straightforward and classical practice is to evoke distances, conjuring wide spaces between the images—which is to say, between the characters depicted in them—and to bring those spaces to life.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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From a scientific perspective, studying consciousness is a bit like trying to describe the singularity inside a black hole from the window of a spacecraft in its gravitational orbit.—
Conor Feehly,
Big Think,
10 Mar. 2026
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Those outside of it appreciate the singularity of his collections—minimal, revealing, sharp—but have not yet become disciples.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
7 Mar. 2026
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The finding provides a long‑sought explanation for a bizarre quirk in the parasite’s biology that has confounded scientists for 40 years.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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But my biggest quirk was my obsession with music.—
Des Moines Register,
Des Moines Register,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Erraticism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erraticism. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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