eccentricity
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The strength of these oscillations also varied according to longer 100,000-year orbital cycles connected to changes in Earth's orbital eccentricity.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
O’Hara managed the character’s outbursts as meaningful, playing each scene with lovable eccentricity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
I can’t decide if it’s eccentricity, a clever psych-out-the-competition move, or just Mikaela Shiffrin being Mikaela Shiffrin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
If you are so devoted to anything there is probably some element of eccentricity about you and, in Dickie's case, it was cricket.
From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025
Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
Vocabulary lists containing eccentricity
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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The Things They Carried
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