eccentric

In the process, Wilson meets other eccentric characters that share his passion of filmmaking but have their own interests, like clearing gum from a sidewalk, immortalizing a person’s tattoo after they’re dead, and music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Its orbit would have been about four times more eccentric than that of Jupiter's moon Europa, whose icy shell is heavily fractured by the continual gravitational stretching and squeezing it experiences.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

It followed Charlie Bucket, a child who is one of five winners who find "golden tickets" inside a Wonka bar and are invited to tour the mysterious chocolate factory run by the eccentric Willy Wonka.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Ninety years after Ford tried to persuade skeptical reporters to eat soybean pie, his obsession with the crop looks less eccentric than prophetic.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Was that the first hint, or was it just Gene being Gene, eccentric and unconventional, trying to shock his disapproving in-laws?

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

His childhood was filled with visionaries and eccentrics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

While Pildas was capturing the seven architects 45 years ago, he was also busy chronicling the city’s street culture — jazz clubs, boulevard eccentrics, decaying movie palaces and bohemian artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

In an era of plangent indie rock, they were the studied, intricate eccentrics.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2024

Clavius was wrong—there are no eccentrics and epicycles—but he was right to claim that he could predict the future movements of the heavenly bodies with a high degree of reliability.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton