: 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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To date, Khruangbin’s albums have passed 775 million streams, a large number that still does not capture their weirdly broad appeal.
—Ryan Bradley MacLeod Andrews Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
That reversal makes for a weirdly wholesome but deflating outcome.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
Acceptance of the 87-year-old composer by the classical music establishment has been painfully slow and weirdly irregular.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Having positioned himself as the country’s next, truly transformative, leader, Sunak offered his party a weirdly pallid program: the dismantling of HS2, plus two long-range, complex policies, to abolish smoking and to reform the A-levels—England’s standard end-of-school exams.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Winter was weirdly warm for half the world’s population, driven in many places by the burning of fossil fuels, according to an analysis of temperature data from hundreds of locations worldwide.
—Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice.
—Todd Richmond, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
The first skit of the night, starring him and Heidi Gardner as weirdly frisky customers in a bank robbery, also ended with Brolin in his undies.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
This was a jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, weirdly emotionally empty film.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Ryan Bradley MacLeod Andrews Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
That reversal makes for a weirdly wholesome but deflating outcome.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
Acceptance of the 87-year-old composer by the classical music establishment has been painfully slow and weirdly irregular.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Having positioned himself as the country’s next, truly transformative, leader, Sunak offered his party a weirdly pallid program: the dismantling of HS2, plus two long-range, complex policies, to abolish smoking and to reform the A-levels—England’s standard end-of-school exams.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Winter was weirdly warm for half the world’s population, driven in many places by the burning of fossil fuels, according to an analysis of temperature data from hundreds of locations worldwide.
—Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice.
—Todd Richmond, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
The first skit of the night, starring him and Heidi Gardner as weirdly frisky customers in a bank robbery, also ended with Brolin in his undies.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
This was a jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, weirdly emotionally empty film.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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