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
Despite all the industry hype and genuine advances, generative AI models are still prone to odd, inexplicable, and downright worrisome quirks.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
As for Reacher’s allies, Duffy’s a federal agent with a thick Boston accent who shares a lot of Reacher’s personality quirks.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Find-Your-Way in PA Discover the quirks and wonders of Palo Alto’s older neighborhoods at a Feb. 22 Find-Your-Way event.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2025
Inheriting an existing team with its unique culture, history and quirks.
—Tinna Jackson, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
As for Reacher’s allies, Duffy’s a federal agent with a thick Boston accent who shares a lot of Reacher’s personality quirks.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Find-Your-Way in PA Discover the quirks and wonders of Palo Alto’s older neighborhoods at a Feb. 22 Find-Your-Way event.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2025
Inheriting an existing team with its unique culture, history and quirks.
—Tinna Jackson, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quirk
Noun
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This chip also drives many of the phone's artificial intelligence features, and allows the Pixel 9a to take advantage of all the same AI camera tricks introduced on the Pixel 9 smartphones in 2024.—
Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
19 Mar. 2025
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Adopting a 12-step routine full of fancy tricks and hacks simply isn’t necessary.—
Angela Haupt,
TIME,
18 Mar. 2025
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Indeed, many, but not all, social and behavioral traits work this way.—
Dalton Conley,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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Their goal is to build a comprehensive database that answers many questions about the behavioral and genetic traits of our friendly felines.—
Manuela López Restrepo,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2025
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To pick some specific characteristics, no two athletes are going to have identical muscle constructions, bone densities, leg lengths, centres of gravity, tendon strength, foot-size or foot arches.—
Liam Tharme,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Each impart different characteristics due to their distinct wood grain and chemical compositions.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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But there’s something about that sort of adolescent age between 12 and 14, where people’s mannerisms change, and people’s bodies change, and people’s voices change, and all of those things.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Similarities between partners can range beyond appearance to having familiar mannerisms, experiences, education, similar tastes in fashion or even daily habits.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
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Their value lies in their idiosyncrasies—their passionate insistence on talking about chimps and ancient pyramids, say, rather than the budget ceiling—and in their authenticity, which entails an aversion to memorizing talking points.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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While the muscular lyrics aren’t necessarily characteristic of either diva, Gaga cleverly takes advantage of her bold voice here, unafraid to use its idiosyncrasies to communicate feeling.—
Carrie Wittmer,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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Just one of the endless peculiarities that made up my dad.—
Chris Wallace,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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Advertisement In her loneliness and, paradoxically, in her peculiarity, Mickey embodies a recognizable archetype: the righteous female cop protagonist of a prestige crime drama.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
12 Mar. 2025
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However, the large eccentricity means its orbit ranges from as far as 2 astronomical units (300 million km/186 million miles — i.e. twice the Earth–sun distance) from its star to as close as 0.75 AU (112 million km/69.7 million miles).—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Brain Dead Studios What’s spring without a little eccentricity and who’s more eccentric a filmmaker than Wes Anderson?—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2025
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It is heated by a wood-burning stove and full of all manner of oddities: an old basketball net, welding helmets, a host of electrical cords, coasters, an impressive anvil in the middle of the room.—
Emilien Hofman (Tr. Elettra Pauletto),
The Dial,
20 Mar. 2025
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There’s just enough harrowing sorrow, eye-popping oddity and acting — whether good or hammy, there’s undeniably a lot of it — to make for a transfixing watch.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Quirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirk. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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