idiosyncratic
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People who have worked with him described him as an unflappable, straight-shooter whose personality makes him an ideal foil for Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s idiosyncratic CEO.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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
“This fraud is an idiosyncratic fraud,” said Kaur, according to a FactSet transcript of its call.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
In its idiosyncratic way, “This Is a Gardening Show” ranks among them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
If inventions are as idiosyncratic and unpredictable as the disk seems to suggest, then efforts to generalize about the history of technology may be doomed from the outset.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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