adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strange/peculiar/odd habit
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He had a lot of peculiar habits, one of them being to stare at you without blinking.
strange/odd/peculiar/funny
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The sweets had a rather peculiar taste.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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I've always found the settlements on the A82 between Crianlarich and Glencoe most peculiar .
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Everyone thought that my crossing the Rann by camel was a most peculiar idea.
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They really were a most peculiar bunch.
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It transpired that Lord Uxbridge had made a most peculiar will.
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About a year later a most peculiar way out of the difficulty was found by Max Planck.
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But Coppock's reasoning is not the most peculiar theory around.
very
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It's very peculiar - he made me feel a fool.
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About 1 percent of all recovered meteorites are the very peculiar carbonaceous chondrite stones.
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Any past Minister of Health who wanted to be Minister of Health again would have very peculiar tastes.
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But something very peculiar is going on.
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Just footballers, that very peculiar animal much prone to foot in the mouth.
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At latitudes greater than about thirty degrees, impact craters have a very peculiar appearance never seen on the Moon.
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It's a very peculiar sensation.
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This is a very peculiar but decorative plant which in submersed form differs conspicuously from the other members of the family.
■ NOUN
form
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It was a peculiar form of lateral thinking, inspired by instinct.
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This is our peculiar form of assimilation.
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As many have pointed out, the receiver's agency is a peculiar form of agency.
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But bear in mind that self-defeating organizations function according to their own peculiar form of behavioral logic.
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The definition itself is arguable given the peculiar form of intelligence required for membership.
kind
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Weaver shows, for example, that a certain peculiar kind of process is occurring when public enterprise objectives are being determined.
thing
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But then she noticed a peculiar thing .
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The storming of the supermarket before a storm is quite a peculiar thing .
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It was a very peculiar thing .
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The altitude does peculiar things to people.
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It was, she realized, a peculiar thing to own.
way
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Nails felt his stomach contract in a peculiar way .
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But it is notable for another reason: It has a peculiar way of determining the gender of its babies.
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In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride.
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The light coming up from the freeway illuminated his face in a peculiar way .
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About a year later a most peculiar way out of the difficulty was found by Max Planck.
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One person stops and looks at me in a peculiar way . l lose the nerve to ask.
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Well, he was paying so let him get on with it in his peculiar way .
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His 14 years in Congress have made him wise to its peculiar ways and means.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Glenn started acting peculiar after his wife's funeral.
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I've been having very peculiar dreams the past few weeks.
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I heard a peculiar warbling from the living room.
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Martha has been a little peculiar lately.
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She's actually very friendly in her own peculiar way.
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This cheese has a peculiar smell.
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This meat tastes peculiar .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the other peculiar effects of camp environment were bad.
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And why would Psyche pay any attention to this peculiar idea?
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During the brief voyage Tom lived in a peculiar atmosphere of doom and of heroic, unselfish courage.
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It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.
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Some questions seem obvious and others peculiar .
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The origins of Gironella's peculiar assemblages lie in his childhood.
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This is our peculiar form of assimilation.