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as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
always has a somewhat weird opinion of what's happening in the news
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as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
weird sounds from the woods just beyond our campsite
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as in magical
having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers
a self-styled, contemporary witch, she sells herbal mixtures that she claims are weird potions
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as in unusual
noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced
a weird little plant that we found growing in the garden
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Recent Examples of weird
And probably deserved better than this very weird cancellation.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
Brown dwarfs are weird objects that have masses that are intermediate between those of giant planets and small stars.
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Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
What’s fascinating is that these two movies are sandwiched in between some of his weirdest and most ambitious work.
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Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
19 June 2026
The writing was so funny and weird.
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
19 June 2026
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
Brown dwarfs are weird objects that have masses that are intermediate between those of giant planets and small stars.
—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
What’s fascinating is that these two movies are sandwiched in between some of his weirdest and most ambitious work.
—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
19 June 2026
The writing was so funny and weird.
—
Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
19 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for weird
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weird
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In a bizarre scene at the ceremony, his troops stood at attention as Ríos addressed them in a live video feed from a Bogotá prison.
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This has produced a toxic and bizarre backlash.
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Tree made eerie comments about his will just weeks before his death.
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Ahead of his Annecy premiere, Variety spoke with Kadowaki about his technique, a singular blend of 2D animation and rotoscoping underlined the eerie atmosphere of his coming-of-age story.
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Dusty navy blue and shiny gold accents make this collection's decor feel even more magical.
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For over 40 years now, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin has made some of the strangest, most beautiful movies in existence, films that replicate the magical qualities of cinema in its infancy, both paying tribute to Maddin’s influences and wryly satirizing them.
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What Trump is doing is unusual.
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Heat domes are not unusual, but the temperatures in this one have been.
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Informal Beyblade battles are popping up in strangest of places, with players huddling in parks, gyms and shopping malls.
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The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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But what feels most haunting about the arc of then to now, about Smith’s unfathomable issues and woes — yet obvious heart and particularly evident quest to find himself in recent years — is that his words then were spoken with a sense of arrival and past tense.
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One of the movie’s most haunting subplots involves prisoners, who are pulled from labor camps looking half-dead and subsequently folded into Michael Caine‘s soccer team at the Brit’s insistence, but possibly to his squad’s detriment.
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That air should be JR’s vital collaborator — no complex and costly scaffolding for these magic mountains — is nothing new in Paris.
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After a six-year closure (alongside the larger hotel closure), locals are thrilled to see that their beloved spot is back and better than ever (Fulk wisely left all that was magic alone and gave the space a light glow-up).
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This scene is funny as well as poignant because Albert was played by the late Rob Reiner.
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But while there are occasionally funny moments, these movies are emblematic of the dumbing down of America.
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