: 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 …—
P. G. Wodehouse
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Earlier this year, OpenAI rolled back an update to ChatGPT after the bot became weirdly overeager to please its users, complimenting even the most comically bad or dangerous ideas.
—Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
But when Sarah goes to the hospital to drop off a card for Dinah, she’s turned away by weirdly hostile staffers.
—Judy Berman, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Not the polished, PR-ready version — the messy, tender, weirdly specific one.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 26 Oct. 2025
This all comes back to the choice of Mel as the Golden Bachelor pick and, weirdly, ABC’s decision to make these episodes only an hour long.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
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Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
But when Sarah goes to the hospital to drop off a card for Dinah, she’s turned away by weirdly hostile staffers.
—Judy Berman, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
Not the polished, PR-ready version — the messy, tender, weirdly specific one.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 26 Oct. 2025
This all comes back to the choice of Mel as the Golden Bachelor pick and, weirdly, ABC’s decision to make these episodes only an hour long.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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