peculiar

Example Sentences

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So the most peculiar puzzle was the slump in the price of bonds.

From MarketWatch

One need look no further than the peculiar anxiety some men still seem to have about ordering pink drinks or cocktails in coupes to know: Sometimes a cigar is more than a cigar.

From Washington Post

“I find it very peculiar that these data, which are very important, have been completely ignored by the field.”

From Science Magazine

Regardless, Pugh spoke lovingly of a director she found “peculiar in the mad genius kind of way,” one who put her and her co-star Jack Reynor through their paces.

From New York Times

"Texas, as has often been noted, is a peculiar place: it both deserves and needs an independent magazine devoted solely to its politics and other oddities," she wrote.

From Salon