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
Wednesday’s game was not a quirk.
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Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 5 Mar. 2026
In a quirk of timing, this has all arrived just days after Samsung revealed its super-steady Horizon Lock stabilization on the Galaxy S26 phones.
—Dominic Preston, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2026
As dogs will do, Mabel adapted to the quirks her owner had.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
Sk8star has a knack for blending the vocal quirks of the YSL and Freebandz extended universe.
—Serge Selenou, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
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Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 5 Mar. 2026
In a quirk of timing, this has all arrived just days after Samsung revealed its super-steady Horizon Lock stabilization on the Galaxy S26 phones.
—Dominic Preston, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2026
As dogs will do, Mabel adapted to the quirks her owner had.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
Sk8star has a knack for blending the vocal quirks of the YSL and Freebandz extended universe.
—Serge Selenou, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for quirk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirk
Noun
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The trick is whether Anthropic can hold onto its soul in the process.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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It's riddled with cheffy tricks but not in alienating way.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The competing hypotheses, which seek to identify common traits between Little Foot and any of these species, highlight why the fossil continues to be such a rich resource of information that could contain clues to human evolution.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Gardeners seeking to increase the biodiversity of lawns might consider allowing weeds with certain traits to remain.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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What would be lost in the red-white-and-blue tedium gives Venezuela an instantly identifiable characteristic.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Many of the characteristics that made the stocks so attractive, like profit growth, remain intact.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Same voice, same mannerisms, next.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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The diversity of their speech patterns and physical mannerisms showed the breadth of the spectrum.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The idiosyncrasies Holtz brought to Notre Dame stuck with players and coaches who entered his orbit.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Everyone’s hearts are closer to the surface than usual, so being tolerant of one another’s idiosyncrasies could be necessary to avoid strife.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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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The answer lies in the subtleties and peculiarities of the reward system, and our old friend dopamine.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Built in 1940 by architect Gerard Colcord, the home underwent a three-year renovation that preserved its bones while editing out the eccentricities left behind by former owners—including Cage’s tarantula room and Martin’s personal performance stage, as well as his outdoor pony corral.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
7 Mar. 2026
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Less massive objects tend to have rounder orbits, while the most massive, brown-dwarf-like of these objects vary more in their eccentricity.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The redwood totem pole of Weed — a 32-foot roadside oddity that stood for 64 years — now lies flat in the parking lot of the Ray’s Food Place grocery store.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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From biological hosts like gut bacteria and pregnancy tests to digital oddities like blockchains and PDFs, the game’s presence on everything from robot mowers to anti-bot CAPTCHA highlights its status as the ultimate benchmark for system versatility.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Quirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirk. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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