oddity

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In yeast they are extremely small and precise -- a striking oddity in the tree of life that has puzzled chromosome biologists for decades.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

The oddity shows up in the options markets too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

He said local farmers would have been wondering what was going on at Blaenllain Farm, adding: "You were shining a beacon on the oddity of it all."

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

I was curious enough to email eBay and report the oddity.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity thanks to Percival Lowell’s obsession with Martian canals, which in the 1910s made it, in every sense, an outpost of astronomical endeavor.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson