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
Tampa Bay is playing its home games at the former home of the Yankees' Single-A affiliate in 2025 while Tropicana Field undergoes necessary repairs, and the venue has some unusual quirks.
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Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Cavanagh plays Jack, the new lead detective of the Founders Cove Police Department and former city slicker who is trying to acclimate to the quirks of small-town life.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
Characters have other contextual quirks, too.
—PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Generative agents don’t need to sound like you or understand you in your entirety to be useful, just as psychologists don’t need to understand every quirk of your behavior to make broad-stroke diagnoses of your personality type.
—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
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Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Cavanagh plays Jack, the new lead detective of the Founders Cove Police Department and former city slicker who is trying to acclimate to the quirks of small-town life.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
Characters have other contextual quirks, too.
—PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Generative agents don’t need to sound like you or understand you in your entirety to be useful, just as psychologists don’t need to understand every quirk of your behavior to make broad-stroke diagnoses of your personality type.
—Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirk
Noun
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So is a certain pride in what one is able to get away with, the thrill of learning new tricks and showing them off.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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The trick, according to Brooks, is to think like an entrepreneur and treat your life like a startup.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When researchers ramped up RTN activity in otherwise normal mice, the animals developed autism-like traits.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Sep. 2025
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This includes displaying traits like conscientiousness; being organized, responsible and disciplined.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Mastantuono, 18, has the characteristics to contribute from a deeper position, but his signing was intended for more attacking areas, as is being seen.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Changeability is the unique characteristic of women.—
Clifford Coonan,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Aside from the physical talent and mannerisms, his toughness, energy and command of how to play the position are reasons to be optimistic about his projection.—
Dane Brugler,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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And some of Anna's mannerisms when trying to calm herself in stressful situations should be recognizable to many parent viewers.—
Katie Grant,
Parents,
7 Aug. 2025
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Admittedly, Honolulu airport has its idiosyncrasies.—
Cemile Kavountzis,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Aug. 2025
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To me, all cats seem autistic, with their unusual idiosyncrasies, blank faces, and sensory sensitivity, but Nini takes it further.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Quantum computers, which harness the peculiarities of quantum physics for gains in speed and computing ability over classical machines, may one day revolutionize technology.—
Ananya Palivela,
Scientific American,
30 Aug. 2025
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Beyond that technical stuff there is the peculiarity of what happens in the poem.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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What works best are the moments of humor, particularly those that seem to wink at Dafoe’s own eccentricities.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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For all its domestic eccentricity, her upbringing was deeply conservative.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Inside the museum, visitors can climb into a snake pit, tour a collection of global oddities and attend expert presentations in the building's historic courtroom, per the event website.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Obviously, finding additional species from earlier in this group's history would help clarify just how much of an oddity Spicomellus was and could give us an improved picture of the trajectory of evolution of this group's distinctive features.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Quirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirk. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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