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- noun Plural form of
idiosyncrasy .
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Examples
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The easiest way to learn different spelling idiosyncrasies is to read!
What Are Your Favourite Spelling Memory Aids? | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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She was a sweet lady who nevertheless had certain idiosyncrasies that bothered me.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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Short-term idiosyncrasies in the rock record can add noise to diversity curves, so to dampen that effect, taxa found in just one interval can be omitted singletons omitted.
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Some conditions often called idiosyncrasies appear to be, and doubtless are, due to disordered intellect.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various
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Their idiosyncrasies were a constant source of amusement to us.
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Do not acquire the idea that the bowels must move at a certain time each day with unintermitted regularity, for they are subject to the same extent as the appetite to what might be termed idiosyncrasies, according to environment and other influences.
Vitality Supreme Bernarr Macfadden 1911
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Their idiosyncrasies were a constant source of amusement to us.
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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Their idiosyncrasies were a constant source of amusement to us.
Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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One of his idiosyncrasies was a faith in coffee as a panacea; and I heard that while sickening he deluged himself with that beverage, to what profit let physicians say.
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As for the 'idiosyncrasies' that make her so unique ... they remain painful, odd, discouraging and precisely the things about her that require so much work change and hope to erase altogether.
Kyrina McCormick: Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst? Ha. 2009
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