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quirk

[kwurk] / kwɜrk /


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But if you’re willing to treat self-improvement the way you’d treat an investment—anchored in evidence, calibrated to incentives, and adjusted for your cognitive quirks—you can dramatically increase your odds of success.

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Despite its quirks, there is an appetite for something like Cake Picnic.

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The event, held at Esports Stadium in Arlington, Texas, promised to be unconventional with a roaring crowd and other quirks that eschewed typical chess etiquette.

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That Guthrie obsessively checks the naval news is seen as a mysterious quirk; no one poses the obvious question of whether someone dear to him might be at sea.

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But its quirks have always been part of college football’s charm.

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