eccentric
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Yet their approach was more than a little eccentric.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Comedian Randall Park plays an eccentric boss of a pizza shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
After a relocation, a scholar finds his attention captured by the eccentric characters of a New England town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Doctor Who first launched in 1963, and follows the adventures of an eccentric Time Lord who travels in a spaceship larger on the inside, that disguises itself as a 1960s British police box.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
He is eccentric, and there is no changing that.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
The film spends significant time roasting inane eccentrics like Benji but not without explaining their place in the media’s modern ecosystem.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
He takes his time absorbing every seemingly inconsequential detail as he becomes attached to the personalities of eccentrics on their self-assigned quests to accomplish unlikely goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, “The Sticky” finds the dark humor in this crazy scheme; but it’s also a low-key portrait of a rural Canada populated by eccentrics and petty bureaucrats.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
In both “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart,” as a comparatively sensible person beset by eccentrics, he could get a lot of mileage out of a simple “Why?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
Thus both Copernicus and Francis Bacon wrote of astronomers ‘feigning’ eccentrics and epicycles—they meant these are imaginary entities.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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