: 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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If that’s weirdly not your thing, here’s everything else to see up close and personal this weekend.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2025
In that era, The New Yorker occupied a weirdly contradictory place in the new American nexus of highbrow and lowbrow, tradition and counterculture.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
Gonzo the Great Curious, chaotic and weirdly brilliant, Gonzo is always chasing new ideas and reinventing himself in the process, which is quite similar to Gemini’s duality.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
The weirdly democratized art of fiction means that writers with only a fraction of the cerebral heft of a Susan Sontag can produce novels far better than something as weighty as In America.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2025
In that era, The New Yorker occupied a weirdly contradictory place in the new American nexus of highbrow and lowbrow, tradition and counterculture.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
Gonzo the Great Curious, chaotic and weirdly brilliant, Gonzo is always chasing new ideas and reinventing himself in the process, which is quite similar to Gemini’s duality.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
The weirdly democratized art of fiction means that writers with only a fraction of the cerebral heft of a Susan Sontag can produce novels far better than something as weighty as In America.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 14 Dec. 2025.
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