eccentric
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Meanwhile, other browsers chitchat about cats, weird vintage finds and their eccentric animal obsessions from childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
After that, I started browsing the library website differently: less like a catalog, more like a streaming service with unusually eccentric licensing agreements.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The eccentric executive cast his criticism as friendly, invoking the French proverb "qui aime bien chatie bien" -- spare the rod, spoil the child.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Feature film Madfabulous - which tells the story of an eccentric 19th Century Welsh aristocrat - leads the way at this year's Bafta Cymru awards with six nominations.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Eventually, one ancient Greek surpassed Zeno in matters of the infinite: Archimedes, the eccentric mathematician of Syracuse.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Mainstream entertainment feeds us lies: We’re all eccentrics struggling to find our way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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
“Now are you willing to concede that there is some faint connection, not necessarily between two eccentrics, but with a—um—general turn of mind that exists in some quarters across the water?”
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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