peculiar feature

collocation in English

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peculiar
adjective
uk
/pɪˈkjuː.li.ər/
us
/pɪˈkjuːl.jɚ/
unusual and strange, sometimes in an ...
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feature
noun
uk
/ˈfiː.tʃər/
us
/ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
a typical quality or an important part ...
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(Definition ofpeculiarandfeaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Apeculiarfeaturethat we encountered on using this preparation was the poor reversibility that was observed with use of the above-mentioned agents.
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Apeculiarfeatureof the human oocyte is the arrangement of mitochondria along the nuclear border.
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Apeculiarfeatureof this problem is the unidirectionality of river flow.
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Third, the deontology has anotherpeculiarfeature.
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Thepeculiarfeatureof 98.11 is that it deals mostly with smoking requisites including pipes, pipe bowls, cigar and cigarette holders.
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Onepeculiarfeatureof the housing situation there is that the people coming into the new towns are mostly of the artisan and low-income group.
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Anotherpeculiarfeatureof the sport is that there is nothing to attract people beyond the actual spectacle.
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I was tempted to try to do this, but race legislation has apeculiarfeature.
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Thepeculiarfeatureof those studies was that there was a remarkably high correlation coefficient between panels with entirely different backgrounds.
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That in itself is apeculiarfeatureof this rather obscure procedure.
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That is apeculiarfeatureof the offshore developments in the harsh environment that we have.
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I am bound to draw attention to a slightlypeculiarfeatureof his case.
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There was anotherpeculiarfeaturein this dispute.
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The secondpeculiarfeatureis that congestion in the town is to a considerable extent due to the railway itself.
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Thepeculiarfeatureof broadcasting is that it must be financed in one of two ways, both of them, to my mind, fundamentally unattractive.
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The section which deals with this is somewhat difficult to understand, but that is not apeculiarfeatureof this draft.
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In another place a third and a very different scheme was proposed, containing a system of voting which had one verypeculiarfeature.
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Apeculiarfeatureof the agreement is that it sets out certain commodities in which this new company is to trade.
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Apeculiarfeatureof credit unions is that their members have a common bond: that is to say, they must already have something in common.
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