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  • noun Plural form of quirk.

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Examples

  • They're unique and discovering their quirks is a joy as you're reading the story.

    Rereads Nalini Singh 2007

  • Just as one's handwriting tends to come out the same every time, with certain quirks of emphasis and flow, so does one's writing, with its recurrent pet vocabulary and concerns.

    Beyond the Underground: 2010

  • Just as one's handwriting tends to come out the same every time, with certain quirks of emphasis and flow, so does one's writing, with its recurrent pet vocabulary and concerns.

    Beyond the Underground: 2010

  • One very good reason, in fact, for gathering these variant techniques together under an umbrella term, understanding them all as pataphysical quirks, is that it's well past time we ceased referring to techniques that have been around in Western literature for over a century (and possibly much longer) as "experimental".

    Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008

  • One very good reason, in fact, for gathering these variant techniques together under an umbrella term, understanding them all as pataphysical quirks, is that it's well past time we ceased referring to techniques that have been around in Western literature for over a century (and possibly much longer) as "experimental".

    Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • LM, what you say about breaking rules and writer's quirks is entirely interesting.

    Closing the covers L. Lee Lowe 2007

  • The reason it behaves differently is, I think, that IE is rendering your page in "quirks mode".

    Twitter: Increasing number of twitters shown in Twitter blog badge Jonathan Aquino 2006

  • One of my stranger quirks is an utter and passionate loathing of Whoopi Goldberg.

    Apples to Apples, Dust To Dust 2005

  • Other 'quirks' - we'll be polite here - include a keyboard lock that didn't always lock the screen, and a ringtone volume that was too quiet (there may be a way to change this, but if so it was too effectively hidden from sight).

    PC Advisor News 2009

  • •The Unusuals (ABC, 10 ET/PT) leans far too heavily on quirks, which is one reason it won't be back come fall.

    Critic's Corner Wednesday 2009

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