quirk

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Many economists believe, for instance, that a quirk in how the CPI accounted for missing data during last year’s government shutdown will artificially lower the consumer-inflation metric’s 12-month rate until April.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Every character has an adorable quirk or two, or at minimum owns a dorky T-shirt with a periodic table joke or a cartoon cat.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

The paper also claimed Quidnet "did not pass the technical tests for Reit status at the time and never did", and had gained the status instead through a "legal quirk".

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

For most of the romance reality show’s 10th season, the account executive seems like a standard-issue OK guy with a quirk about taking daily cold plunges.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

She sighed and shook her head as if this were just some strange Dari quirk.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller