eccentric
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Meanwhile, other browsers chitchat about cats, weird vintage finds and their eccentric animal obsessions from childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
After that, I started browsing the library website differently: less like a catalog, more like a streaming service with unusually eccentric licensing agreements.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
If educators and policymakers want children to receive the best education possible, they should treat home education as the default option—not an eccentric one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The eccentric executive cast his criticism as friendly, invoking the French proverb "qui aime bien chatie bien" -- spare the rod, spoil the child.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
George Francis Train was a wealthy eccentric who was an outspoken advocate for women’s suffrage.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
His childhood was filled with visionaries and eccentrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Both Kennedy and Trump are famous eccentrics who possess a charismatic weirdness that somehow captures people’s imaginations — and inspires them to become devoted followers.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
Even among the ego-driven billionaire eccentrics of Silicon Valley, Ellison stood out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025
In an era of plangent indie rock, they were the studied, intricate eccentrics.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2024
Clavius was wrong—there are no eccentrics and epicycles—but he was right to claim that he could predict the future movements of the heavenly bodies with a high degree of reliability.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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