as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit
wearing red shoes every day is just one of her quirks
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Recent Examples of quirk
Taliesin is an amalgamation of Wright’s ideas, life events, and quirks.
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Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
By listening to Lemme Say This, for example, audiences get to know about Harris and Dix’s core college memories, past relationships, and parental quirks.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 10 Apr. 2025
All mechanical conveyances have their quirks, and quirky bikes are the rule.
—Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
Gravitational Lensing Explained The strange, exceedingly rare object was found using one of the strangest quirks of nature — a gravitational lens.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
By listening to Lemme Say This, for example, audiences get to know about Harris and Dix’s core college memories, past relationships, and parental quirks.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 10 Apr. 2025
All mechanical conveyances have their quirks, and quirky bikes are the rule.
—Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
Gravitational Lensing Explained The strange, exceedingly rare object was found using one of the strangest quirks of nature — a gravitational lens.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirk
Noun
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Rea allowed one run over 5 1/3 innings, improving to 4-0 with another no-flash performance that did the trick.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
19 May 2025
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Label tricks, regional cues and color considerations for better picking at the wine shop.—
Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
Noun
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Powered by Adelaide, Forbes AI Psychological safety, defined by McKinsey as the absence of interpersonal fear, is often cited as a defining trait of high-performing, innovative teams.—
Cynthia Pong,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Wirtz is focused more on the micro, with delicate touches and deft flicks, compared to Szoboszlai’s macro traits of energy and power.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Titan shows all the characteristics of a planet – including rivers, lakes, clouds, rain and even a salty subsurface ocean.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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Rebecca’s wholehearted characteristics and attributes connect her to the Water sign Pisces, who takes on problems with others due to their absorbance and empathetic nature.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
11 May 2025
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Rogers embodies that transformation with finesse, capturing Betty's signature voice and mannerisms while infusing the character with contemporary depth and relatability.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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Bringing his signature chaotic energy, Robinson is known for his intense promos and wild ringside mannerisms.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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In an expansive interview alongside playwright and filmmaker David Mamet, LaBeouf spoke about how his and Coppola's disparate idiosyncrasies often led to frustrations on set of the sprawling sci-fi drama, which had been a decades-long passion project for Coppola but ended up as a high-profile flop.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
8 May 2025
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Those idiosyncrasies are what make the sport so exceptional.—
Jim Root,
The Athletic,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Antoine’s peculiarities perhaps cut deepest, even seemingly superficial ones.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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There are echoes of the early days of thermodynamics, which began with humble questions about how machines work and ended up speaking to the arrow of time, the peculiarities of living matter, and the fate of the universe.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Through the divination trial, the audience learns that much of Lilia’s eccentricity comes from her experience living life out of order, giving more context to moments earlier in the season, where the character would blurt out what seemed to be random statements.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
12 May 2025
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Lyonne forged a career by finding and later creating projects that capitalized on her undeniably intrepid personality, wrapping the roles around her eccentricities rather than conforming to what was expected of a female performer in Hollywood.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2025
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The Ferguson oddities Players signed by the greatest manager of all time, for reasons few can fathom.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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The four-seater Porsche 911, also known as the 911 B17, never made it beyond this prototype, but still exists as an oddity and, potentially, a very valuable one.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
6 May 2025
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“Quirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirk. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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