eccentric
Having a different center; not concentric.
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His early life is incredible. There's an eccentric documentary (The Eyes of Orson Welles, 2018, dir. Mark Cousins) that views him through the drawings he did, seemingly compulsively, from childhood on.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Is a critically acclaimed, award-winning comedy series that follows the hilarious antics of the eccentric detectives at the 99th Precinct in New York City. Headlined by the talented ensemble cast,…
♪ #nowplaying You Don't Care - The Esquires (Compilation : Eccentric soul : The Cuca label - 1966) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
Qi-Xuan Xu, Richard Brito, Riccardo Della Monica, Rodrigo Vicente, Chen Yuan Resonances as signatures of scalar clouds in eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03756
Funny thing I really liked the Eccentric 05. It had that really fresh, zesty, calm woody scent that I really like in perfumes.
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Having a different center; not concentric.
1801, Author not named, Fyfield (John), entry in Eccentric Biography; Or, Sketches of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GG4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22more%7Cmost+eccentric%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iuGn…
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Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater.
“His early life is incredible. There's an eccentric documentary (The Eyes of Orson Welles, 2018, dir. Mark Cousins) that views him through the drawings he did, seemingly compulsively, from childhood on.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Is a critically acclaimed, award-winning comedy series that follows the hilarious antics of the eccentric detectives at the 99th Precinct in New York City. Headlined by the talented ensemble cast, the show... #Show #Comedy”
— Bluesky· May 2026“♪ #nowplaying You Don't Care - The Esquires (Compilation : Eccentric soul : The Cuca label - 1966) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Qi-Xuan Xu, Richard Brito, Riccardo Della Monica, Rodrigo Vicente, Chen Yuan Resonances as signatures of scalar clouds in eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03756”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
“Funny thing I really liked the Eccentric 05. It had that really fresh, zesty, calm woody scent that I really like in perfumes.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“an eccentric rich micro-to-regular celebrity/musician/whatever should hire me as their stylist. how do i get this kinda job. i want to play dress up for free on someone better looking than me.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Try covering the right wing of U.S. politics for 30 years, only to be dismissed as an eccentric, or an alarmist, or a crank. (Not that I’m bitter or anything.)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I can’t imagine some of the things you get sent. I’ve been a Celtics and Red Sox fan my entire life and have met some eccentric fans of both teams. Sometimes in the bathroom at a baseball game which is always awkward.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“He's over the hill anyway. And not NEARLY eccentric enough.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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