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Recent Examples of freakishly
Tonight, the New York Knicks won their first NBA title in 53 years over Victor Wembanyama, the most freakishly-gifted basketball player maybe ever.
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Marlow Stern,
Variety,
14 June 2026
Shot mostly in the Canary Islands with the region’s searing, glaring Tropic-of-Cancer-adjacent light, freakishly black, volcanic soil and groovy mid-century-modernist buildings, the film suggests a future where the worst climactic disasters have been avoided.
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Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2026
Others are luminously, freakishly beautiful, in ways that seem designed to appeal to beings from other solar systems.
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Rosa Lyster,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Boston and Oklahoma City played high-level D and were freakishly athletic.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
Six Jackson family members are credited as producers and still seem to be grappling with how their freakishly gifted and damaged relative came to exist.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
The story still lays there on the table, limp as a corpse, but freakishly still twitching.
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Jd Barker,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
The Frankenstein actor looked freakishly handsome in a custom tuxedo and vest, cotton poplin shirt, bow tie from Bottega Veneta.
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Kevin Huynh,
InStyle,
16 Mar. 2026
Team Canada coach Jon Cooper often included him in freakishly skilled trio with Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon.
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Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2026
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
14 June 2026
Shot mostly in the Canary Islands with the region’s searing, glaring Tropic-of-Cancer-adjacent light, freakishly black, volcanic soil and groovy mid-century-modernist buildings, the film suggests a future where the worst climactic disasters have been avoided.
—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2026
Others are luminously, freakishly beautiful, in ways that seem designed to appeal to beings from other solar systems.
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Rosa Lyster,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Boston and Oklahoma City played high-level D and were freakishly athletic.
—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
Six Jackson family members are credited as producers and still seem to be grappling with how their freakishly gifted and damaged relative came to exist.
—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
The story still lays there on the table, limp as a corpse, but freakishly still twitching.
—
Jd Barker,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
The Frankenstein actor looked freakishly handsome in a custom tuxedo and vest, cotton poplin shirt, bow tie from Bottega Veneta.
—
Kevin Huynh,
InStyle,
16 Mar. 2026
Team Canada coach Jon Cooper often included him in freakishly skilled trio with Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon.
—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freakishly
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California’s finances are unusually dependent on high earners, especially stock market gains that drive their taxable income.
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But during prolonged heatwaves, rivers are already unusually warm.
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In fact, after a period of extraordinarily high tuition growth from 1920 to 1990, tuition growth slowed in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
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Exposing city taxpayers to potential liability when CVI hires return to their past ways, which is known to happen, is extraordinarily misguided.
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Birds such as swifts, swallows, sparrows, and starlings, which make their nests in the eaves of roofs, have been particularly affected by abnormally high temperatures, said Romaine de Jaegere, founder of the Center for the Rehabilitation of Animals Living in the Wild refuge in Temploux, in Belgium.
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According to Macfarlane, significant heat waves and abnormally high summer temperatures should be expected statewide.
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The view was uncommonly broad, and the city skyline poked out of the eastern sky.
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The skilled pivot speaks almost perfect English and is uncommonly engaging to speak with.
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Trump appears to have lost interest in most of the GOP agenda and has become almost singularly focused on his voting legislation to require proof of citizenship, which has almost no chance of passing.
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Being singularly focused on sports is part of ProphetX’s pitch to consumers.
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Now, multiple residents are left worried about what's to come next week with extremely hot temperatures in the forecast.
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Despite being the fourth largest economy in the world — the home of Hollywood and Silicon Valley — California’s budget is extremely dependent on the state’s most prosperous residents.
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This butter-yellow tunic feels cheerful, airy, and incredibly chic for summer.
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The producers are amazing, the writers are amazing, the director's amazing and Netflix has been nothing but incredibly supportive.
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But the recent action on Anthropic, as well as asking OpenAI to limit its own newest model, comes after experts have fretted for months that Mythos could pose a security risk by giving hackers and other bad actors access to AI capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities exceptionally quickly.
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The release of the new batch of episodes almost perfectly coincides with an exceptionally rainy, stormy and destructive year for Chicago and Illinois as a whole.
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“Freakishly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freakishly. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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