: in a weird manner : in a strange way
a weirdly familiar place
has been behaving weirdly lately
… in the pellucid air everything seemed weirdly beautiful …—
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So there’s this thing that’s uniting them weirdly through loss.
—Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 5 May 2026
The failure of the network computer also made Ellison weirdly recalcitrant about the cloud.
—Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026
Worst of all, like Zoolander 2 did before it, the film badly miscalculates the value of showbiz and industry cameos, which reach critical mass when the team members fly to Milan and, weirdly, only one of the latter (Donatella Versace, having an awkward lunch with Emily) seems to work.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
A lot of what Annie has gone through has weirdly paralleled my own life.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
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Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 5 May 2026
The failure of the network computer also made Ellison weirdly recalcitrant about the cloud.
—Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026
Worst of all, like Zoolander 2 did before it, the film badly miscalculates the value of showbiz and industry cameos, which reach critical mass when the team members fly to Milan and, weirdly, only one of the latter (Donatella Versace, having an awkward lunch with Emily) seems to work.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
A lot of what Annie has gone through has weirdly paralleled my own life.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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