peculiarities

plural of peculiarity

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Recent Examples of peculiarities Our readers from all around the world may not be familiar with the peculiarities of British politics or your political platform. Richard Hall, Time, 12 Aug. 2026 And on that field, however, there are some peculiarities in the Hungarian tax system. Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Szymborska draws upon the semantic peculiarities of her native tongue to underscore the point. Literary Hub, 16 July 2026 The subject does not have a lot of hard-and-fast rules; wars share common characteristics but each conflict has its own peculiarities and exigent circumstances. Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 If the job of a debut album is to introduce an artist to the world, while a sophomore album reinforces their reputation, then a third album offers a channel for artists to expand beyond the familiar tricks and peculiarities that shot them to fame in the first place. Chelsey Sanchez, CNN Money, 25 June 2026 For thousands of years, scholars have investigated the peculiarities of irrational numbers. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026 Rose of Nevada’s power lies in its peculiarities. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 June 2026 This suggests that buyers are increasingly narrowing down their talent searches to specialists that understand the unique peculiarities and context windows that come attached to different coding tools, with Anthropic’s Claude being the most popular. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peculiarities
Noun
  • Jack Reacher, protagonist of books by Lee Child and an ongoing Amazon drama, has several characteristics integral to his Jack Reacher-ness.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Hydrogen tackles flight phases Unlike conventional jet fuel, hydrogen has different combustion and storage characteristics, requiring changes to the systems that deliver and burn it.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The film emerged victorious in a lineup of 17 features at the Swiss fest, including new works by auteurs including Hong Sangsoo, Denis Côté, Ann Oren and Nelson Yeo.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The Pixel Watch 5 introduces a suite of health monitoring features called Health Guardian.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Standard Tactics Lose Their Edge Here The biggest surprise was that the tricks our agency uses for clients didn’t work here!
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The voices and visions play tricks and offer surprises, and there’s a sense of humour even when tragedy is lurking in the wings.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Scarcity, heritage, and exclusivity are part of what customers are paying for, and those qualities have helped create exceptional economics.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The philosophical qualities that define Lindelof’s best work, as well as his stories’ exhilarating strangeness, get lost in the jumble of voices.
    Judy Berman, Time, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But this was his first opportunity to play against a live pass rush, which tested one of the traits that drew Los Angeles to Simpson.
    Nate Atkins, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • In theory, Daniels could sue LSU for misappropriation of his right of publicity, which forbids the unauthorized commercial use of a college athlete’s name, image, likeness, signature, voice, nickname and other identifying traits.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But Roth had a vision for how his unique combination of attributes could not just benefit his own productions but the theater world at large.
    Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Foreign brands without those two attributes are being marginalized.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Cristin Milioti was in her sweet spot as lovable mess Hazel, who left college a decade ago to marry tech titan Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), a control-freak inventor whose toxic quirks evoke many real-world counterparts.
    Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Roberts was known for his meticulous preparation, which included visiting out-of-town courtrooms to gather intel on judges’ quirks and preferences.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The work has bounced between several attributions over the years before scholar Giuseppe Porzio identified it as a painting by Glielmo, giving bidders a fresh reason to take notice.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 3 June 2026
  • Political discussions on social media are often dominated by competing attributions of more and more insidious motives to people on the other side.
    Mark Schroeder, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2026

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“Peculiarities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarities. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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