eccentric
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His fanaticism, and his late-career defense of communism after the Soviet collapse in 1991, were nothing if not eccentric.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Comedian Randall Park plays an eccentric boss of a pizza shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
As the chapters accumulate, the reader gains a sense of the Jeff Beck that the authors describe as part genius, part unknowable eccentric.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Wonka's The Golden Ticket will feature an AI-generated version of Wilder, who played the eccentric chocolatier in the 1971 film.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
I imagine he did not think I was a beggar, but only an eccentric sort of lady, who had taken a fancy to his brown loaf.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
It is full of eccentrics, impish humour, and the absurdities of small-town and big-city life.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
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
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
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