as in trick
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 singularity
As that region collapsed, quantum effects prevented a final singularity, causing spacetime to rebound and expand again.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
To sidestep the inconvenience of infinity, mathematicians have recently focused their search on singularities with a special property called self-similarity.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
Helping disabled people regain autonomy, building a device for consumers to play video games, or mitigating the singularity, a theoretical future in which artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence?
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
Advertisement On Alice An activist’s life is never a singularity, and Alice Wong’s legacy is everlasting.
—Rose Angelina Martin, Time, 3 Dec. 2025
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
To sidestep the inconvenience of infinity, mathematicians have recently focused their search on singularities with a special property called self-similarity.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
Helping disabled people regain autonomy, building a device for consumers to play video games, or mitigating the singularity, a theoretical future in which artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence?
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
Advertisement On Alice An activist’s life is never a singularity, and Alice Wong’s legacy is everlasting.
—Rose Angelina Martin, Time, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for singularity
Noun
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Seven of the 12 finalists fell in their first run in snowy conditions, which made landing tricks more of a challenge.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
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Van Der Beek, twisting his remarkable life into a piece of comedy, pulled the same kind of trick.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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In vacating the life prison term in 2024, Cook County Judge Marc Martin found in part that Modrowski had been unfairly portrayed as emotionless and cold during his 1995 trial and sentencing proceedings when the characteristics were likely due to his autism.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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And what physical characteristics is law enforcement focusing on that might help people locate them?—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
13 Feb. 2026
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Chemistry, timing, shared experiences, and the slow work of falling in love with someone tend to matter far more than the traits that some people screen for on a dating-app profile.—
Rafaela Jinich,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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The two traits that will serve Riojas well are accountability and resilience.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Feb. 2026
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At least those visual mannerisms and tropes are pretty much universal, baked into the DNA of TV casting-and-talent shows worldwide.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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Bouteraa plays Lilia with restrained mannerisms, but an avalanche of emotion in her face.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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For all its ills, social media can also be an entry point for anyone interested in Chicago history and the city’s varied eccentricities.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Lulu’s eccentric confidence — or, better put, her confidence in her own eccentricity — carves out a space for her in an episode that’s otherwise fairly plain, all without a whiff of judgement.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 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
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Tracking the beginning of their secret relationship through Thorpe’s 1979 trial, A Very English Scandal is a stellar lesson in how to use the miniseries format to tease out the bizarre peculiarities of real-life drama.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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As much as any other institution—schools, libraries, churches—the public-health system has helped propagate the idea of a commons, often working against historical inertia to curb the excesses of American individualism.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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These Iranians embrace individualism and global culture through the internet, and simply want to exist and act as citizens within their society.—
Ramin Jahanbegloo,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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As Venus and Uranus clash, avoid taking their idiosyncrasies to heart.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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But the measure of success for the second-year quarterback is simply getting more in tune with the idiosyncrasies of NFL life.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Singularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singularity. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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