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
“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
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
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
The best part is about the Chicago brainiacs—professors and classmates—their groundbreaking discoveries matching their idiosyncrasies.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 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 he included Oona’s idiosyncrasies in the final animation. He was very respectful of the performance.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
This is a very powerful conclusion and is in no way based on the idiosyncrasies of a particular civilization.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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