idiosyncrasy

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

And “country,” the hands-down favorite music of “real Americans,” has long been a production-line item with as much idiosyncrasy in the songs as Olive Garden breadsticks.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

Never one where Chekhov’s talent is matched, nuance for nuance, idiosyncrasy for idiosyncrasy, by every soul onstage.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

What we’re likely to be left with is an adaptation that hits all of the beats of the hundreds of motion picture takes on the story with all of their charms and idiosyncrasies smoothed away.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Roth likes the model’s idiosyncrasies: “If you don’t have an edgy personality, you feel like it’s sycophantic. It’s just going to please you too much,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Kate Mayne, who is a farmer and the chair of NFU Shropshire, worked closely with the project and said that "local idiosyncrasies... are really important to us as farmers".

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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

“I feel grievous when I ruminate about your idiosyncrasies, Loring,” Pinkie called out proudly.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy