quirk

Example Sentences

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One quirk of dragon fruit farming is that its flowers only bloom at night and into the early hours of the morning.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

In a different timeline, this would be just harmless fun — a quirk of the president’s personality, nothing more.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

Every character has an adorable quirk or two, or at minimum owns a dorky T-shirt with a periodic table joke or a cartoon cat.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

That is largely because cooler housing inflation—and a statistical quirk created by the shutdown—have moderated CPI inflation more than the PCE index.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

And here was a cunning quirk of physiology.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor