idiosyncratic

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Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

"Pakistani leaders are conducting shuttle diplomacy throughout the Middle East. The question is whether it is transitory and merely the product of the US president's idiosyncratic preferences."

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Jack Such, a spokesperson for Kalshi, said that prediction markets provide investors with forecasting data, as well as the opportunity to price in any idiosyncratic risk as it happens.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

In its idiosyncratic way, “This Is a Gardening Show” ranks among them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker