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Recent Examples of funnily
That's why, funnily enough, a furniture store actually works really well for us because the floorplate facilitates interaction.
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Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
Ireland, funnily enough, does a lot of that.
—Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
All this means, funnily enough, that the first place that a program capable of using JPEG compression appeared was not MacOS or Windows, but OS/2—a fascinating-but-failed graphical operating system created by Pennebaker and Mitchell’s employer, IBM.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
Ireland, funnily enough, does a lot of that.
—Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
All this means, funnily enough, that the first place that a program capable of using JPEG compression appeared was not MacOS or Windows, but OS/2—a fascinating-but-failed graphical operating system created by Pennebaker and Mitchell’s employer, IBM.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funnily
Adverb
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The Chiefs — abruptly and strangely — have lost their ability to win one-score games after going 12-0 in those contests during the 2024 season.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Yet, strangely and dismayingly, because military and governmental trappings are so familiar from other movies and thus easily borrowed by this one, Lockjaw seems more firmly grounded in his political milieu than Pat/Bob and Perfidia do in theirs.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In French’s telling, Ghanaian independence feels almost inevitable—the British never had a feasible plan to stop it—and so its arrival is oddly anticlimactic.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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And why is the density of dark energy so close to the density of regular matter, an oddly neat coincidence?—
Rebecca Boyle,
Scientific American,
4 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In the early twentieth century, Einstein formulated equations for the peculiarly relative flow of time, now an indispensable part of the workings of all GPS systems.—
Alan Lightman
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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So, Orange County in the late 1970s and early 1980s seems a peculiarly unlikely place to have a hardcore punk rock scene.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Checking Activity Monitor for unknown processes or unusually high CPU or memory usage can reveal malware that tries to hide itself with random or unfamiliar names.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The speech was viewed by many as unusually political for a sitting justice.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Funnily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funnily. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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