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
  • Directly transferring the original walking policy failed because the second robot had different body proportions, joint configurations, and motor characteristics.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
  • According to the team, each of those characteristics plays out similarly in real fish of various sizes across different ecological niches.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The family also built features specifically for its youngest members.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • One of Brady’s favorite features is the retractable wall that can split the training room into two separate spaces.
    Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Cirque du Soleil’s otherworldly adventure, combining high-flying tricks and underwater artistry, has been reimagined in Shared Reality.
    Mary Caldwell, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • For account takeover, though, getting rid of the six-digit code could take away one of the easiest tricks in a scammer's playbook.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Both movies share more than a few qualities, notably the same love of infinite interzones and the same flavor of exponentially increasing existential dread.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Are there leadership qualities that have ascended in importance and others that have descended?
    Steve Karp, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • These are potentially key traits for Emery this season, given the number of departures this summer, including Morgan Rogers, Lucas Digne, Youri Tielemans and Ezri Konsa.
    Aston Villa, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • While tech billionaires such as Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen may see empathy and introspection as weaknesses, those traits are the beating heart of literature and art, the wellspring of creativity and human connection.
    Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • To the surprise of probably no one, these attributes carry over beautifully into the work of country songwriting.
    Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2026
  • However, these material attributes do not always reduce environmental impacts.
    Erin Victor, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The glasses still have some quirks to work out, but the potential here is massive.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The center contributes to global research on gibbons The gibbons are full of personality and individual quirks, and Skollar knows them well after decades at the center.
    Jaimie Ding, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In two cases, the publishers added specific attributions, as had been required of Miller’s book.
    Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
  • 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

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“Peculiarities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarities. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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