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Example sentences for: quirk

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This relationship--known in genetics as "pleiotropy"--seems to be completely accidental, a quirk of evolution.
The other quirk is that over the past year, eBay's stock price has not really moved much (although it did jump 12 percent in the wake of this latest earnings report).
Macau, the final bastion of Portugal’s great 16th-century empire, is much more than just a quirk of history.
,” mind you), whose name does not ring the bells in my head that are (w)rung by names like Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Thatcher, and Marie, Queen of Rumania, is identified as “the” model, as if she were being distinguished from the Rachael Garley who succeeded Sir Randolph Quirk as president of the British Academy and that other Rachael Garley whom we all know to be the (not “a”) power behind Boris Yeltsin or Saddam Husein.
Sir Randolph Quirk, the most famous British grammarian, says that the ordinal question can be obliquely asked in English like this: How many presidents were there before Bill Clinton?