as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit
wearing red shoes every day is just one of her quirks
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Recent Examples of quirk
Can't wait for the weird personality quirks and side eye of judgment.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
But there was a new quirk that impacted Thursday’s game that frustrated manager Mark Kotsay.
—Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2025
Every application has its own quirks—some are easy to migrate, others require extra integrations and some legacy systems may not be compatible at all.
—Akram Atallah, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Across the border in Texas, and in other parts of the Southwest, flour tortillas bear a range of regional quirks.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
But there was a new quirk that impacted Thursday’s game that frustrated manager Mark Kotsay.
—Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2025
Every application has its own quirks—some are easy to migrate, others require extra integrations and some legacy systems may not be compatible at all.
—Akram Atallah, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Across the border in Texas, and in other parts of the Southwest, flour tortillas bear a range of regional quirks.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirk
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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Or is that all part of a deeper trick, a wilder swing?—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
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
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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
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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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That would let researchers simulate only the essential parts of the brain, and not all biological idiosyncrasies.—
Dobromir Rahnev,
The Conversation,
23 May 2025
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The action itself, with its piquant and poignant behavioral idiosyncrasies, teems with loose, whiplash-like ends and opaque but gleaming facets.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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Twain’s narrative boasts some—discrepancies is too magisterial a word … peculiarities, say.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
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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Yet what’s strange and understandable at the same time is that if the oddities that took place at the various U.S. Opens (Winged Foot most notably) can be forgotten, what Arkush most seems to be saying is that even forgetting those, someone with Mickelson’s talent still should have won many more.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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But Beautiful offsets its delightful oddities with jibing pop traditionalism.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 June 2025
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“Quirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirk. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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