eccentric
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After a relocation, a scholar finds his attention captured by the eccentric characters of a New England town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Doctor Who first launched in 1963, and follows the adventures of an eccentric Time Lord who travels in a spaceship larger on the inside, that disguises itself as a 1960s British police box.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Memorable cinematic roles have included a corrupt police officer in the Harrison Ford thriller "Witness" and a comedy turn in Wes Anderson's eccentric "The Royal Tenenbaums," opposite Gene Hackman.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Whether it was Ryan channeling designer inspo or fashion-snatching looks from the streets, the display — like the book that inspired it — was colorful and daring, inspired and eccentric and wholly unique.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
The shops and restaurants boasted different shapes and colors, some striped, some painted in pastels, some brass and silver, all lined up like eccentric hatboxes in a rich person's closet.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
“I like lifting up the rocks and finding the eccentrics out there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He takes his time absorbing every seemingly inconsequential detail as he becomes attached to the personalities of eccentrics on their self-assigned quests to accomplish unlikely goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Both Kennedy and Trump are famous eccentrics who possess a charismatic weirdness that somehow captures people’s imaginations — and inspires them to become devoted followers.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
It is full of eccentrics, impish humour, and the absurdities of small-town and big-city life.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
Thus both Copernicus and Francis Bacon wrote of astronomers ‘feigning’ eccentrics and epicycles—they meant these are imaginary entities.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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