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
All that whimsy and quirk might have been cloying, but the film has real things on its mind, including the mundane disappointments and insecurities of adult life.
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Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
There’s people smarter than me that can talk about the quirks of this moment.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Scale authentically without losing your voice Put your principles, tone, and quirks into full descriptions.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
For the 40-year-old, the lowercase look may be a personal quirk with little professional downside, but for Gen Z workers, experts say, not being willing to spend effort holding down the shift key can carry real career consequences.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
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Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026
There’s people smarter than me that can talk about the quirks of this moment.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Scale authentically without losing your voice Put your principles, tone, and quirks into full descriptions.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
For the 40-year-old, the lowercase look may be a personal quirk with little professional downside, but for Gen Z workers, experts say, not being willing to spend effort holding down the shift key can carry real career consequences.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirk
Noun
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Seven of the 12 finalists fell in their first run in snowy conditions, which made landing tricks more of a challenge.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
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Van Der Beek, twisting his remarkable life into a piece of comedy, pulled the same kind of trick.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Chemistry, timing, shared experiences, and the slow work of falling in love with someone tend to matter far more than the traits that some people screen for on a dating-app profile.—
Rafaela Jinich,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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The two traits that will serve Riojas well are accountability and resilience.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In vacating the life prison term in 2024, Cook County Judge Marc Martin found in part that Modrowski had been unfairly portrayed as emotionless and cold during his 1995 trial and sentencing proceedings when the characteristics were likely due to his autism.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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And what physical characteristics is law enforcement focusing on that might help people locate them?—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
13 Feb. 2026
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Their clothing, gait and small details such as mannerisms can give a person away.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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That process began by Pidgeon working closely with the movement coach Julia Crockett to get some of her mannerisms down.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2026
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As Venus and Uranus clash, avoid taking their idiosyncrasies to heart.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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But the measure of success for the second-year quarterback is simply getting more in tune with the idiosyncrasies of NFL life.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Tracking the beginning of their secret relationship through Thorpe’s 1979 trial, A Very English Scandal is a stellar lesson in how to use the miniseries format to tease out the bizarre peculiarities of real-life drama.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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The peculiarity was simply too much to overlook.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Lulu’s eccentric confidence — or, better put, her confidence in her own eccentricity — carves out a space for her in an episode that’s otherwise fairly plain, all without a whiff of judgement.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2026
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Without clinginess or intensity, attraction becomes a result of one’s individuality, confidence and eccentricity.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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Gone were the college marching bands and Up With People oddities of the 1970s and '80s — in their place, megawatt stars, forever expanding the Monday-morning quarterbacking beyond the Xs and Os, into the realm of music and cultural commentary.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
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The store offered tarot readings and seances, as well as a room full of oddities, including a coffin, taxidermies and an electroshock therapy kit, according to The Salisbury Post.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Quirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirk. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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