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Recent Examples of funnily
Ireland, funnily enough, does a lot of that.
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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
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
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Although no publicly available evaluation has classified Stines as mentally deficient, a number of coworkers and friends interviewed by state police said Stines was acting strangely in the days leading up to the shooting of Mullins.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Stealerium, strangely, is distributed as a free, open source tool available on GitHub.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Artem Bolshakov/iStock / Getty Images Plus TikTok users were quick to weigh in on Wilson's video, with many finding the décor both hilarious and oddly appealing.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Just weeks after a previous UFO turned out to be a drifting hot water heater, their second mystery fizzled out just as oddly.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 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
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Earlier this year, a titanium mine was slated for construction on the edge of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, an unusually diverse ecosystem that is home to some of the country’s most pristine wetlands.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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The film’s unusually long running time of 174 minutes would likely have required its images to be pretty heavily compressed to fit them onto a 66GB disc, but 100GB will hopefully give the remaster room to breathe.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Funnily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funnily. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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