as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit
a college professor with singularities of dress and speech that have long endeared him to his students
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Recent Examples of singularity
And of course, receivers often follow-up those touchdowns with dances originated in other video games, completing the singularity.
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 21 Dec. 2024
The singularity of It’s Never Over, along with the access and the candor, makes up for a lot here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2025
Bethany is a brand manager initially unaware of the singularity of her special treatment: Her air conditioning works, and her unit features crown molding and new kitchen counters.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
This interplay could generate the kind of entropy that resolves itself by accident, potentially catalyzing the singularity many are quietly hoping for.
—Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 21 Dec. 2024
The singularity of It’s Never Over, along with the access and the candor, makes up for a lot here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2025
Bethany is a brand manager initially unaware of the singularity of her special treatment: Her air conditioning works, and her unit features crown molding and new kitchen counters.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
This interplay could generate the kind of entropy that resolves itself by accident, potentially catalyzing the singularity many are quietly hoping for.
—Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for singularity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for singularity
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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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This cat's trick shouldn't be too much of a surprise as many videos of felines opening doors have flooded social media in recent years.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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These high-rye bourbons represent some of the best in the world, showcasing the bold and spicy characteristics that come with a higher rye content in the mash bill.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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The grapes used to make this wine are grown on a high altitude ridge, which causes the grapes to incorporate the mineral characteristics of the area, producing a bold and expressive wine with black fruit aromas and a mineral finish.—
Hilary Tetenbaum,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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Some might consider critical thinking a trait or capacity that teachers can encourage, like creativity or grit.—
Lightning Jay,
The Conversation,
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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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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Despite limited footage, Storm worked to nail Mortensen’s specific in-ring mannerisms.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
8 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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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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Gone was the collective identity felt by a community, replaced with an individualism that gave people a newfound sense of self-worth.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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As the historian Richard Hofstadter has written, American ideas of efficiency, individualism, and liberty during this period were rooted in a capitalist system that rewarded those who could demonstrate their fitness.—
Jeffery Vacante,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 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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“Singularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singularity. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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