as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit
his only idiosyncrasy is his inveterate wearing of sneakers, even with business suits
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Recent Examples of idiosyncrasy
In an expansive interview alongside playwright and filmmaker David Mamet, LaBeouf spoke about how his and Coppola's disparate idiosyncrasies often led to frustrations on set of the sprawling sci-fi drama, which had been a decades-long passion project for Coppola but ended up as a high-profile flop.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 May 2025
Those idiosyncrasies are what make the sport so exceptional.
—Jim Root, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
Jerry and Emily trotted out more mathematical idiosyncrasies.
—Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024
Possibly connected to the case which scared James into hiding, Russell (Dipo Ola) serves as the audience’s stand-in, responding to all of his new partner’s idiosyncrasies with a mixture of bewilderment and awe.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 8 May 2025
Those idiosyncrasies are what make the sport so exceptional.
—Jim Root, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
Jerry and Emily trotted out more mathematical idiosyncrasies.
—Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024
Possibly connected to the case which scared James into hiding, Russell (Dipo Ola) serves as the audience’s stand-in, responding to all of his new partner’s idiosyncrasies with a mixture of bewilderment and awe.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idiosyncrasy
Noun
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However, there is a trick for using both of these operations together.—
Paul Smith-Goodson,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Thalberg was a wunderkind, and one of the tricks of being a wunderkind is to leverage a youthful aura—selling the Kind to increase the Wunder.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
Noun
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The study found that, once again, this trait strongly predicted breadcrumbing, and was also associated with ghosting behaviors.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Compared with the other dragons in the original, which character designer Nico Marlet imagined with comically lopsided proportions — bulgy eyes, oversize heads, ungainly fangs — Toothless was an elegant mix of feline and canine traits, mapped onto a sleek black reptilian body.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Besides searching for the likes of methane and ammonia, the characteristics of the planet's atmosphere discernible to JWST could point to which formation model – core accretion or disk instability – is the correct one, or even whether a brand new formation model is needed.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 June 2025
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Key characteristics of individuals with big egos in the workplace include: Domineering behavior.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
Noun
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But the census does reveal some quirks: the tally of objects flattens out a bit as mass descends from the stellar regime to brown dwarfs but then starts rising again at lower, more planetary-scale masses.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
12 June 2025
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Winning a spot on the Lake County Regional Board of School Trustees in 2023 with more than 43,000 votes, a quirk of state law prevented him from taking his seat.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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The result is an exciting mosaic not just of views and opinions, but also of mannerisms and personalities.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
3 June 2025
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While the veteran running back’s voice barely elevated above a public library level and his mannerisms remained reserved, the sincerity of his enthusiasm still landed.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Twain’s narrative boasts some—discrepancies is too magisterial a word … peculiarities, say.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2025
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Stuff like how to read spins and backgrounds at various stadiums, including the peculiarities of cavernous Kauffman Stadium.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
5 June 2025
Noun
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For comparison, Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0167 and is therefore close to circular; at the other extreme, an orbital eccentricity of 1 would be parabolic.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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Class struggle is reflected in the way that the back-alley heavy, Atticus Hawk, dismisses the ivory-tower eccentricity of the occult specialist Scholar Vitali.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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He is used to mowing his lawn shirtless and in shorts – especially on hotter days – but recently, what seemed like a harmless habit sparked unexpected drama with his neighbors across the street.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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Students leave with answers, but more importantly, with the habit of questioning their own choices and understanding the consequences.—
Dr. Aviva Legatt,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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“Idiosyncrasy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiosyncrasy. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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