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Recent Examples of funnily
The 1929 landmark building has long attracted Hollywood writers and actors, and funnily enough, Rhimes’s unit once doubled as Olivia Pope’s apartment in early episodes of Scandal.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2026
In 2024, a team of volunteers and engineers banded together to 3D print a harness to help a nearly three-decade-old turtle named Charlotte living with the funnily named, but medically serious, bubble butt syndrome.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
But, funnily enough, losing to Halifax might have been the best thing that happened because Ben Tozer stood up in the dressing room and gave it to everyone.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Both have two, and all four books were published by Riverhead, and funnily enough, both earlier books (The Mothers, 2016 and Verge, 2020, respectively) were designed by Rachel Willey, while both later books (The Vanishing Half, 2020, and Thrust, 2022) were designed by Lauren Peters-Collaer.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Expect appearances from local brewers, live music, games and food – plus lots of funnily dressed dogs kicking back after their big show.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
That's why, funnily enough, a furniture store actually works really well for us because the floorplate facilitates interaction.
—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
Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2026
In 2024, a team of volunteers and engineers banded together to 3D print a harness to help a nearly three-decade-old turtle named Charlotte living with the funnily named, but medically serious, bubble butt syndrome.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
But, funnily enough, losing to Halifax might have been the best thing that happened because Ben Tozer stood up in the dressing room and gave it to everyone.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Both have two, and all four books were published by Riverhead, and funnily enough, both earlier books (The Mothers, 2016 and Verge, 2020, respectively) were designed by Rachel Willey, while both later books (The Vanishing Half, 2020, and Thrust, 2022) were designed by Lauren Peters-Collaer.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Expect appearances from local brewers, live music, games and food – plus lots of funnily dressed dogs kicking back after their big show.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
That's why, funnily enough, a furniture store actually works really well for us because the floorplate facilitates interaction.
—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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But strangely, also, the opposite is true.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
4 Mar. 2026
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The play concerns an average guy named Berenger (a character name that Ionesco used in other works, and who seems to share some background details with the playwright) who sees the people around him acting strangely and spouting odd sentiments.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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His imagination and that of Tibetan poetics and painted Thangkas are oddly similar, both in the realm of mind‑projection and three‑dimensional visualization.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Feb. 2026
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Evan graduated from Georgia State University, but oddly is a Georgia fan.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2026
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Facing a peculiarly hostile administration in Washington, Pretoria has ample reason to pursue greater intra-BRICS cooperation—not out of ideological affinity with its members but out of the strategic necessity to protect itself against an erratic and punitive United States.—
OLIVER STUENKEL,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Nov. 2025
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Yes, the Knicks have benefited from good fortune during this stretch; as the notebook covered last week, New York is allowing opponents to shoot an unusually low percentage from 3, along with unsustainably cold shooting elsewhere.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Three years ago, an unusually warm winter was one of the worst for the industry.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Funnily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funnily. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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