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                              noun ADJ.  curious, odd, peculiar, strange | little VERB + QUIRK  have The system has some odd little quirks. PREP.  by a ~ of By a strange quirk of fate, she later married the first boyfriend she'd ever had. | ~ in as a result of some quirk in the social order PHRASES  a quirk of fate
                        
                        
 
                        
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