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Recent Examples of oddly
After months marked by corruption, violence, and the open perversion of law, to gasp in outrage at the loss of a few tons of masonry and mortar might seem oddly misjudged.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Still, its ceiling lights are oddly of different brightness levels, and some minor distortion in background objects on the kitchen countertop is noticeable.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
The artist says that her new album was born, oddly, from her lack of desire to get back to creating solo albums.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
The performances are deliriously inspired, from Mark Ruffalo’s hilarious caricature of insecure manhood to Willem Dafoe’s oddly paternal mad scientist to Stone’s astonishing mental maturation through every developmental stage on the way to adulthood.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Still, its ceiling lights are oddly of different brightness levels, and some minor distortion in background objects on the kitchen countertop is noticeable.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
The artist says that her new album was born, oddly, from her lack of desire to get back to creating solo albums.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
The performances are deliriously inspired, from Mark Ruffalo’s hilarious caricature of insecure manhood to Willem Dafoe’s oddly paternal mad scientist to Stone’s astonishing mental maturation through every developmental stage on the way to adulthood.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
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Adult death is always strangely humiliating but this was something more, conceptually distressing, theoretically immoderate, elaborately unkind.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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But no, for all the talk of taking their game to all four corners of the world, football’s expansionists and modern-day conquistadores seem to have a strangely narrow worldview.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
23 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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This all comes back to the choice of Mel as the Golden Bachelor pick and, weirdly, ABC’s decision to make these episodes only an hour long.—
Ali Barthwell,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2025
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The persistent wobble is wildly and weirdly terrifying.—
Sally Singer,
Vogue,
10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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With a displacement of 443 GT, the vessel is compact yet delivers an unusually large amount of exterior deck space.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2025
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The intensification was powered by unusually warm sea water in the Caribbean, which provides the energy for the storm to gather strength.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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