idiosyncratic
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This isn’t an argument for turning every anonymous strip mall back into a village of idiosyncratic mom-and-pop shops.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Early cave paintings depicted animals with highly specific and idiosyncratic detail, but human beings were made to appear vague and generic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
We all also have plenty of celebrities with idiosyncratic features who nonetheless have the confidence and quelque chose de spécial that makes them irresistible to many.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Knight-Swift and XPO “got a couple idiosyncratic levers that they’re pulling and that I don’t think others have,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Scorned when it was first erected in the late 1950s, it is a brilliant, if idiosyncratic, creation by one of the most original architectural minds of the century.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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