eccentric
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The outsize, eccentric personalities of tech titans have also given Hollywood plenty to work with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Pakistan have a history of making eccentric decisions in the wake of defeats.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Curry maintained many of those original design details, while adding his own eccentric flair to the home, including several bold-hued rooms, like a dark persimmon dining space and a soft green living area.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The sisters enjoyed traveling, and when they were nineteen and twenty-one, they went to Geneva, Switzerland, and spent eight months with their favorite aunt, Jessie, and her eccentric Italian husband, J. C. de Sismondi.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
His childhood was surrounded by visionaries and eccentrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Sturgis specializes in these kinds of neurotic eccentrics, but his portrayal didn’t help me identify Ru’s secret appeal or believe in the trauma that we later learned occurred when his car broke down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The film spends significant time roasting inane eccentrics like Benji but not without explaining their place in the media’s modern ecosystem.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
Created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, “The Sticky” finds the dark humor in this crazy scheme; but it’s also a low-key portrait of a rural Canada populated by eccentrics and petty bureaucrats.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
The problem for Kepler was that circles, eccentrics and epicycles were geometrical constructions; there was no evidence that any such gearing existed in the heavens.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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