eccentric
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Hilton earned a reputation as eccentric but savvy, pushing the Conservative Party to embrace same-sex marriage and more climate-friendly policies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
In “The Social Reckoning,” the heroes are brilliant, eccentric, sarcastic, edgy and arrogant; the villains are brilliant, eccentric, sarcastic, edgy and arrogant; the subsidiary characters are brilliant, etc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The X-59's owes its eccentric design to the problem of sonic booms.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Its orbit would have been about four times more eccentric than that of Jupiter's moon Europa, whose icy shell is heavily fractured by the continual gravitational stretching and squeezing it experiences.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
The sisters enjoyed traveling, and when they were nineteen and twenty-one, they went to Geneva, Switzerland, and spent eight months with their favorite aunt, Jessie, and her eccentric Italian husband, J. C. de Sismondi.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
His childhood was filled with visionaries and eccentrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I like lifting up the rocks and finding the eccentrics out there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Both Kennedy and Trump are famous eccentrics who possess a charismatic weirdness that somehow captures people’s imaginations — and inspires them to become devoted followers.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
It is full of eccentrics, impish humour, and the absurdities of small-town and big-city life.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
Settlers arrived—mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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