out of character
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They consider a range of subjective criteria: whether a proposed project is out of character with existing buildings, or out of scale, or blocks too much light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Small-caps are typically more sensitive to interest rates, so the rally in the face of rising expectations of a rate hike could seem a bit out of character.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Encountering a “Joy of Painting” episode in a pet food store, then, is not out of character.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
While Plaza loves how “freeing” animation is — “your imagination can run totally wild” — she says that even though it’s out of character for her, she’d play the “bad cop” in the writers room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
This confidence is so completely out of character that I’m speechless.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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