idiosyncracy

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  • If his biggest "idiosyncracy" is feeling most comfortable batting first, his teammates haven't said much about it, largely because they have quirks and preferences of their own. —  DailyHerald.com > News
  • I, on the other hand, have always appreciated the idiosyncracy of my preference for yellow. —  Bub and Pie
  • Toulon's team once again delivered a fractious effort, marked by far too much idiosyncracy and far too little team cohesion. —  Planet Rugby News - Rugby Union News
  • Trauma and idiosyncracy make us wonderfully human, just as my own individual body makes me myself. —  Is there no sin in it?
  • One further idiosyncracy: I deal with the literature almost exclusively in footnotes - a habit I seemed to have picked up during my previous theses. —  Roughtheory.org
 

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