idiosyncrasy

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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

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

No idiosyncrasy is too singular for him to wrestle into submission – and over three seasons of the Syfy series, he’s bear-hugged a lot of them.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

At times the latter has been in strict alignment with hip-hop’s center; sometimes it has taken her to pop excess; at other moments, it has found her pursuing a path of rap idiosyncrasy.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2023

The results never completely caught on—but they endure as a historical curiosity of some idiosyncrasy.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith