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Peculiar in sentence

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Now having evolved language, though, we did something peculiar, even bizarre.
Cyber weapons have this peculiar feature: they can be used without leaving traces.
It was very peculiar, because it was dark out, but she was backlit with florescent lighting.
Imagine you're using the Internet and you see a CAPTCHA that you think is somewhat peculiar, like this CAPTCHA.
And the mystery is to explain this peculiar number.
The socialism that they practiced was a peculiar form of Swiss-bank socialism, which allowed the heads of states and the ministers to rape and plunder Africa's treasuries for deposit in Switzerland.
Here's a piece that has an even more unusual, more peculiar instrumentation.
So, well, I do applied math, and this is a peculiar problem for anyone who does applied math, is that we are like management consultants.
And one of the side effects of having major massive blood loss is you get tunnel vision, so I remember being on the stretcher and having a little nickel-sized cone of vision, and I was moving my head around and we got to St. Vincent's, and we're racing down this hallway, and I see the lights going, and it's a peculiar effect of memories like that.
And this is increasingly peculiar, because about 20 years ago when they started delving into the genome, they thought it would probably contain around 100 thousand genes.
Whether it is an image of a soap bubble captured at the very moment where it's bursting, as you can see in this image, whether it's a universe made of tiny little beads of oil paint, strange liquids that behave in very peculiar ways, or paint that is modeled by centrifugal forces, I'm always trying to link those two fields together.
And this peculiar recursive quality that we call self-awareness, which I think is the holy grail of neuroscience, of neurology, and hopefully, someday, we'll understand how that happens.
And I thought that was incredibly peculiar.
Does any other emotion teach us to look with such peculiar intensity?
Mobility in developing world cities is a very peculiar challenge, because different from health or education or housing, it tends to get worse as societies become richer.
There's something very peculiar about Venice, that its administration has been very, very bureaucratic.
Du Bois, the famous activist, said it's this peculiar sensation that the Negro has to walk around being viewed through the lens of other people, and this two-ness, this double consciousness.
This galaxy is so peculiar, that it challenges our theories and our assumptions about how the universe works.
There is currently no known mechanism that can explain the existence of an inner ring in such a peculiar galaxy.
It was a peculiar, peculiar feeling, and a real surprise to me to be debilitated to that degree.
And I thought, "That's very peculiar."
And it was all very peculiar, and my headache was just getting worse.
What I learned from North Idaho is the peculiar brand of paranoia that can permeate a community when so many cops and guns are around.
But the puzzle of why the universe emerged in that peculiar state is completely unsolved.
So much so that if you label them with a fluorescent dye you can see them like some kind of peculiar cellular glue coming into the area of a fracture, fixing it locally and then stopping their work.
If you line up the entire text of "Moby Dick," which was published in 1851, into a giant rectangle, you may notice some peculiar patterns, like these words, which seem to predict the assassination of Martin Luther King, or these references to the 1997 death of Princess Di.
But it would go on to have a very peculiar effect on me.
Add to that my entry into Africa's private school system, whose entire purpose is to beat the Africanness out of you, and I would have a very peculiar adolescence.
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control, I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today.
So I'm an artist, but a little bit of a peculiar one.
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