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idiosyncrasy

noun as in oddity, quirk

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“But we mixed that with a more Latin American idiosyncrasy, so it’s familiar but very different.”

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Inside the White House, Pulte’s idiosyncrasies have earned him some detractors.

“Our results here show that, for the same client vignette, AI advisers recommend safer portfolios than human advisers and that … scenario cues, not adviser idiosyncrasies, drive the difference.”

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The tangents, the idiosyncrasies of the hosts and the glimpses of private life leave listeners feeling connected.

Their actions, character, and — yes, I think I can use this word — spirit have literally helped form your neural pathways, so that the way they thought, their little idiosyncrasies, are dwelling in you.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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