eccentricity
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The British political system "fosters the eccentricity, the wonderment and the humour of politics", he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
How much funnier Shakespeare’s motley crew can be when we’re allowed to discover the variety of eccentricity and ludicrousness on display for ourselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The strength of these oscillations also varied according to longer 100,000-year orbital cycles connected to changes in Earth's orbital eccentricity.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
"We still see Janie's wit and eccentricity, but we also see a more vulnerable side," she said.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Aunty Ifeoma shook her head as if the way Papa felt were just a minor eccentricity.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"A planet caught in resonance finds its orbit deformed to higher and higher eccentricities, precessing faster and faster while staying in tune with the orbit of the binary, which is shrinking," Touma said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
He seemed, in short—for all his personal eccentricities and foibles—normal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
In it, the audience gets a closer look at the eccentricities that frame his imaginative inner world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
But the eccentricities of this defendant belie the seriousness of the case.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
The intensity had not abated after two years, nor had her awe at his self-assured eccentricities and his fierce moralities.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing eccentricity
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Things They Carried
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