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peculiarly

 adverb
     
pe‧cu‧li‧ar‧ly
1

peculiarly British/female/middle-class etc

something that is peculiarly British etc is a typical feature only of British people etc:
a peculiarly American idea
2 in a strange or unusual way:
Theo had been behaving peculiarly.
3 especially:
a peculiarly difficult question
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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