1
: in an odd manner
2
: as is odd
was quite happy, oddly enough
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the house's oddly shaped roof
Their lives had been oddly similar.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
His imagination and that of Tibetan poetics and painted Thangkas are oddly similar, both in the realm of mind‑projection and three‑dimensional visualization.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
Evan graduated from Georgia State University, but oddly is a Georgia fan.
—Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026
Still, when Bentley confirmed the result, officially designating me a deep winter, the validation felt oddly triumphant.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddly. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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oddly
adverb
odd·ly
ˈäd-lē 
1
: in an odd manner
was behaving oddly
2
: as is odd
liked the work, oddly enough
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