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
Fabled Southern heritage has devolved into crackpot eccentricity, but that only deepens Louise’s adoration for the holdouts who honor it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
O’Hara managed the character’s outbursts as meaningful, playing each scene with lovable eccentricity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
Somewhere between a yearning for motherhood and a woman’s understandable hesitation about it is where the bulk of O’Hara’s onscreen interpretations lived — confidently, outlandishly, and except for Kate, clad in eccentricity.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2026
“Many people have a hobby…. The difference between the normal range and the eccentricity observed in Asperger’s Syndrome is that these pursuits are often solitary, idiosyncratic and dominate the person’s time and conversation.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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