idiosyncrasy
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Indeed, the very features that make gifts inefficient as market transactions—surprise, idiosyncrasy, miscalibration—are often what make them meaningful as social gestures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
“But we mixed that with a more Latin American idiosyncrasy, so it’s familiar but very different.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
The headline proposal of the reforms is the removal of the not proven verdict - a legal idiosyncrasy that can be traced back to the 17th Century.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
No idiosyncrasy is too singular for him to wrestle into submission – and over three seasons of the Syfy series, he’s bear-hugged a lot of them.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2024
The results never completely caught on—but they endure as a historical curiosity of some idiosyncrasy.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
There’s no better way to quickly learn a person’s idiosyncrasies than living with them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Anne Robinson from Dunbarton has first-hand knowledge of EES and its idiosyncrasies - to the point it has put her off returning to Europe this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The primary race is asymmetrical because of the idiosyncrasies of Massie and the district he represents, according to T.J.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
And that might get personal: the astronauts laughed when asked what idiosyncrasies they feared their crewmates might discover.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Like cultural idiosyncrasies, individual idiosyncrasies throw wild cards into the course of history.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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