idiosyncrasy

Indeed, the very features that make gifts inefficient as market transactions—surprise, idiosyncrasy, miscalibration—are often what make them meaningful as social gestures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

“But we mixed that with a more Latin American idiosyncrasy, so it’s familiar but very different.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

The headline proposal of the reforms is the removal of the not proven verdict - a legal idiosyncrasy that can be traced back to the 17th Century.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025

And “country,” the hands-down favorite music of “real Americans,” has long been a production-line item with as much idiosyncrasy in the songs as Olive Garden breadsticks.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

The results never completely caught on—but they endure as a historical curiosity of some idiosyncrasy.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

It also suggests Mr. Devine doesn’t fully understand Mr. Sanders’s idiosyncrasies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Anne Robinson from Dunbarton has first-hand knowledge of EES and its idiosyncrasies - to the point it has put her off returning to Europe this year.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

The best part is about the Chicago brainiacs—professors and classmates—their groundbreaking discoveries matching their idiosyncrasies.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

The primary race is asymmetrical because of the idiosyncrasies of Massie and the district he represents, according to T.J.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

Obviously, answers to these questions about differences in organizational success depend partly on the idiosyncrasies of individuals.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond