eccentric
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Comedian Randall Park plays an eccentric boss of a pizza shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
His existence is upended by a visit from an eccentric young man he discovers lurking outside his apartment in New York’s West Village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
As the chapters accumulate, the reader gains a sense of the Jeff Beck that the authors describe as part genius, part unknowable eccentric.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Doctor Who first launched in 1963, and follows the adventures of an eccentric Time Lord who travels in a spaceship larger on the inside, that disguises itself as a 1960s British police box.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The shops and restaurants boasted different shapes and colors, some striped, some painted in pastels, some brass and silver, all lined up like eccentric hatboxes in a rich person's closet.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
His childhood was filled with visionaries and eccentrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The film spends significant time roasting inane eccentrics like Benji but not without explaining their place in the media’s modern ecosystem.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
It is full of eccentrics, impish humour, and the absurdities of small-town and big-city life.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
While Pildas was capturing the seven architects 45 years ago, he was also busy chronicling the city’s street culture — jazz clubs, boulevard eccentrics, decaying movie palaces and bohemian artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
“Now are you willing to concede that there is some faint connection, not necessarily between two eccentrics, but with a—um—general turn of mind that exists in some quarters across the water?”
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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