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idiosyncratic

adjective as in distinctive

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The author relates her principal story, of the two sisters, in the present tense, while keeping historical context in the past—an idiosyncratic choice that, fortunately, doesn’t derail the book’s narrative momentum.

As a headstrong piano student, he made rapid if idiosyncratic progress.

Taken as a group, the prints going under the hammer on December 3 exemplify "Blake's idiosyncratic genius as both an artist and poet", he added.

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“Many people have a hobby…. The difference between the normal range and the eccentricity observed in Asperger’s Syndrome is that these pursuits are often solitary, idiosyncratic and dominate the person’s time and conversation.”

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Preven ran several times for public office, launching idiosyncratic campaigns for mayor, city council and county supervisor.

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