quirks

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Quirks of speech — “you know,” “uh” — are preserved in a bit of naturalism that, especially when sung, is also endearingly strange.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

Quirks like a bubble top tube in python print looked fantastically like the model was being eaten by a boa constrictor.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Even science animated her compositions: She titled one of her lighter works “Quantum Quirks of a Quick Quaint Quark.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2020

Quirks include, when eating something nice, instead of salivating, a tear will run from my left eye.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2012

Quips, Quiddities, Quibbles, and Quirks, by . . . dear me, I want to say “ready writers”—that's the style of nom de plume required.

From Happy-Thought Hall by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir