as in tricks
an odd or peculiar habit
a college professor with singularities of dress and speech that have long endeared him to his students
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Recent Examples of singularities
The technique used to measure the singularities’ velocity could open the door to studying other tiny, fast phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology—or perhaps to find new ways to encode quantum information in materials, according to the researchers.
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Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
Seeking certainty Traditionally, engineers have dealt with singularities through software fixes.
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Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
26 Apr. 2026
And so, as a prelude to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians have searched for blowups (also called singularities) in an assortment of simplified fluid equations, such as those that operate in only one dimension.
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Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
The system design is presented, and a 6 DOF geometric control that is robust to singularities.
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IEEE Spectrum,
9 Nov. 2018
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
Seeking certainty Traditionally, engineers have dealt with singularities through software fixes.
—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
26 Apr. 2026
And so, as a prelude to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians have searched for blowups (also called singularities) in an assortment of simplified fluid equations, such as those that operate in only one dimension.
—
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
The system design is presented, and a 6 DOF geometric control that is robust to singularities.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
9 Nov. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for singularities
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This month was all about the art choices—and a couple clever tricks, too.
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Consider the four tricks designers keep up their sleeves for this exact situation.
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Lime Kiln Theater combines all three of those characteristics, offering an annual summer lineup of live performances at its legendary outdoor venue (an old limestone quarry and kiln).
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Continuous review President reviews, according to CSU policy, allow the CSU board of trustees to understand the unique characteristics of each campus, assess their leadership and further the school’s progress.
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Low volatility and low correlation are the whole selling point, the two traits that win an asset a place in a diversified portfolio.
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Those traits can certainly be found in the Dolphins’ draft class.
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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.
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For thousands of years, scholars have investigated the peculiarities of irrational numbers.
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Instead, Nowell roots the band’s sound in the mid-’90s and keeps his vocal mannerisms as close to Bradley’s as possible.
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His behavior, his voice, his accent, his physical mannerisms, everything was so particular to him, but also to New York at a certain time, and in a certain kind of crowd.
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The stylistic eccentricities have been dialed back, including the use of old Hollywood film clips to reflect the action and possibly the thoughts of its main character, a cinephile from space, who is both practicing and enacting the work of a private detective.
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Designers embraced audacious concepts, leading to iconic cars like the Corvette and Thunderbird, alongside numerous eccentricities.
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Nearly 1 out of every 20 Americans could have reasonably expected tens of thousands of dollars in relief and shaped their spending habits accordingly.
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That means the mix in your mouth today is not fixed, and habits move it in one direction or the other over time.
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The spindle’s mechanical quirks show just how weird materials science can get at the finest scales of life.
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Fortunately, the underlying hardware platform feels substantially more mature than the occasional software quirks suggest.
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“Singularities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singularities. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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