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But even though the reunion movie Mr. Monk’s Last Case was nominated in the oddball Outstanding Television Movie category (more on that in a second), Shalhoub couldn’t crack the five-man field for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024 For example, mature bucks often push does into oddball locations to get them away from other deer. Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 3 Oct. 2024 The festivals are done; Brat Summer is dead; and a glorious calm has fallen as music’s oddballs come out to play. Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2024 Now researchers led by Daniela Angulo of the University of Toronto have revealed another oddball quantum outcome: photons, wave-particles of light, can spend a negative amount of time zipping through a cloud of chilled atoms. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for oddball 

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“Oddball.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddball. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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