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
This quiz is designed to connect your quirks, strengths, and hidden sides with the constellation that resonates most with you.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2025
Unlike most goalies who have a reputation for their quirks, Heil’s teammates say his normalcy and calm sets him apart.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2025
The season kicked off with some quirks.
—Sacbee.com, 30 Dec. 2025
Until now, scientists could not be sure whether unusual signals seen in experiments were truly signs of a quantum spin liquid or just quirks of specific materials.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
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This dish will do the trick with crispy chicken and fresh zucchini tossed in a tender linguine with a robust lemon flavor.—
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But even an invitation to hang out again, perhaps paired with a gift card to a local lunch spot, could do the trick.—
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By examining liver cells as the disease progressed, researchers saw that healthy liver functions slowly shut down and survival traits took over.—
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The Louisville transfer features the size (6-6, 325), length and explosive traits NFL defensive coordinators covet and QBs usually lose sleep over.—
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But there are other factors that needled their way into the evolutionary development of dormancy characteristics.—
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There’s no single definition in our modern times, but experts generally agree on a few characteristics.—
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The technology will only get more polished, the mannerisms more finely calibrated, the over-all effect more persuasive.—
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Not just losing the height, but the mannerisms.—
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The guide recommended giving her some fun idiosyncrasies.—
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In effect, Jarmusch is standing Tolstoy on his head and suggesting that unhappy families share common forms of misery, whereas the happy ones are happy precisely because of their differences—because of the idiosyncrasies that place them outside convention.—
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Caillaux, by the way, is spelled C-A-I-L-L-A-U-X for those unfamiliar with the peculiarities of French pronunciation.—
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One senses that there may have been more to the woman’s silence than awestruck agreement, but Bergler cheerfully adds her to his portfolio of case studies, in which patients’ sartorial peculiarities are unfailingly traced to episodes from their pasts.—
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Every genius needs their eccentricities.—
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Lovers of maximalist eccentricity have reclaimed the word and redefined it in a more positive tone.—
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If the month was a statistical oddity, in hindsight, wasn’t worth thinking about too much.—
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One other oddity of the current candidate eligibility statute is the Civil Code 5105(e) requirement that candidates cannot be disqualified if they have not been offered internal dispute resolution (the process of Civil Code Sections 5900-5915).—
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“Quirk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quirk. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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