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Definition of strangeness
1 : the quality or state of being strange
2 : the flavor characterizing a strange quark
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Just keeping your balance requires so much work, and keeping your goodness requires even more, but even this strangeness is worth it.
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The young man who had been hired to watch a glass portal doubted the possibility of such strangeness, and was horribly murdered as a result.
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Torpe, a Dane, gives the King brand a fresh strangeness.
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If nothing else, the confluence of these two events highlights the enduring strangeness of North Korea as an actor on the international stage.
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A surprising amount of strangeness has been injected in, too—
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Stein’s strangenessStein 2051 B happens to be one of the closest white dwarf stars.
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Overwhelmed by India’s heat, intensity and (in his eyes) strangeness, Wyndham nonetheless perseveres, helped by his very dry sense of humor.
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To add to the strangeness of the night, the Mets got five scoreless innings out of their bullpen: three from Josh Edgin and two from Neil Ramirez.
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First Known Use of strangeness
14th century
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