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Recent Examples of oddity This is an oddity amid a warming climate, as the general pattern is that the world’s land areas are warming up more quickly than the oceans. Chris Mooney, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025 Sarah Winchester is pretty well-known in these parts thanks to her sprawling mansion, the Winchester Mystery House, which attracts droves of people every year to explore its 160 rooms and architectural oddities. Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025 Beyond the novelty, some of these oddities are surprisingly practical. Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Womack's unwillingness to back another continuing resolution is not an oddity. Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for oddity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddity
Noun
  • So is a certain pride in what one is able to get away with, the thrill of learning new tricks and showing them off.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The trick, according to Brooks, is to think like an entrepreneur and treat your life like a startup.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Antique furnishings and heirlooms from the Parker family’s time in the home give it character, yet the overall feel is fresh, welcoming, and refreshingly unfussy—a rarity among historic B&Bs.
    Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, there’s a rooftop pool, a rarity in the neighborhood.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And Armstrong Archives documented machine learning improving extraction accuracy through anomaly detection.
    Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Even with a relatively small sample size, the anomaly stuck out like a giant, red, throbbing sore thumb — a favorite gag in animation.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For decades, sovereign citizens largely flew under the radar in Australia as relatively harmless eccentrics with a special interest in conspiracy theories.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Both towns are filled with lovable eccentrics, both treat community as a kind of moral center, and both ask us to consider what decency looks like at the local level.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Journalists, as a result, will have no trouble recognizing themselves in The Paper, which captures the quirks, jargon, and inside jokes of newsroom life while still delivering plenty of laughs amid the chaos.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The kooky characters surrounding Judge Stone included the conceited prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), the imposing bailiff Bull Shannon (Richard Moll), and the idealistic public defender Christine Sullivan (Markie Post), each of whom had various quirks of their own.
    Dan Heching, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There are exceptions, such as when the National Guard operates under state authority or when the Insurrection Act is invoked, allowing the president to deploy troops during major unrest or emergencies.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Senate Bill 627, for example, would prohibit law enforcement agents from covering their faces to obscure their identity, carving out exceptions for SWAT teams and undercover officers.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Here, played by the black actress Karen Bryson, the character is all brains and sass.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • At one point during NCIS' run, de Pablo's character was thought to be dead.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When researchers ramped up RTN activity in otherwise normal mice, the animals developed autism-like traits.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • This includes displaying traits like conscientiousness; being organized, responsible and disciplined.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Oddity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddity. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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