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Rather than being a statistical quirk, Stovall said he believes things have played out this way for a reason.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

Just three players this century have had a season with at least 550 at-bats and zero homers, a bizarre statistical quirk that hasn’t happened since Elvis Andrus of the Texas Rangers in 2010.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

There have always been overeager people who, through either extreme wishful thinking or some quirk of brain chemistry, have come to believe that science fiction hides secret messages or covers up for real events.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

But Folarin Balogun only represents the USA because of a quirk of his birth.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

At last, obediently, like the mouth of a ventriloquist's dummy, my own mouth started to quirk up.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

These quintessentially parochial quirks are blended with local customs such as singing the Indian national anthem every morning or celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi, a major Hindu festival.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

For all its narrative quirks, “Redemption” does function as what Wright calls “an appeal to conscience.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

They did not attempt to find the quirks in this familiar score, but rather leaned into its inherent merits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

A confluence of market quirks blamed for deepening the recent selloff may be running out of steam, stirring hope that the rise in bond yields will also peter out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yet once the sixty-inch shook off its quirks in the spring of 1939, it began to perform as spectacularly as its designers expected.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik