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
“She told me to do it myself,” Lee says, “as she designed her own gardens herself, and they are idiosyncratic just like she is.”
From Los Angeles Times • 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
We had been an idiosyncratic, leaderless band in the summer, undirected except by the eccentric notions of Phineas.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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