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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a peculiar segment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a part of something that is unusual or distinctive in nature.
Example: "In the study, we found a peculiar segment of the population that exhibited unique behavioral traits."
Alternatives: "an unusual portion" or "a distinctive part".
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Manfred Güllner, Forsa's director, noted that backing for the party was "coming from a peculiar segment of the population of which the nucleus is the radicalised middle classes".
Female stalk-eyed flies in some populations carry a peculiar segment of DNA on their X chromosomes known as a sex-ratio distorter.
The Yq11.1/Yq11.21 transition region harbours a peculiar segment composed of an imperfectly organized tandem-repeat structure encoding four members of the double homeobox (DUX) gene family.
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This region contains a peculiar ORF (open reading frame -like sequence segment oframe -likemprisequencecodonsegmentding the starting cofon (GTG for Val) and termination codon TAA.
There is a peculiar type of polyurethanes in which the hard segment content is very low and the long-chain diol is very crystalline and, therefore, the crystalline fraction is formed by the soft segments and a lower concentration of hard segments.
(It's a peculiar car).
What a peculiar expression, methinks.
It was a peculiar afternoon.
I felt a peculiar shock.
A peculiar pathos enters in.
It's a peculiar description.
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