oddly

Definition of oddlynext

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Recent Examples of oddly Bubes’s big break came, oddly enough, thanks to the biggest rivalry in college football. Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 17 July 2026 Podcasts are the big push Netflix has made in recent months to increase the quality of engagement, and Netflix oddly did not even include how those shows are doing in its current engagement report. Brian Welk, IndieWire, 16 July 2026 Menelaus, the king of Sparta, gets, from Jon Bernthal, an oddly apt New York white-ethnic outer-borough accent. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 July 2026 Megan Rapinoe, whose name Americans only know because of women's sports, seems oddly intent on destroying women's sports now that she's retired. Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for oddly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
  • Their LinkedIn profiles sound polished but strangely interchangeable.
    John M. O'Connor, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Adverb
  • Building a wall may even be its own kind of narrative project—a peculiarly linear one.
    Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026
  • This peculiarly stubborn barrier to the franchise held strong until Puerto Rican citizens took it to court, finally succeeding 60 years ago today, June 13, 1966.
    Robert Polner, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026
Adverb
  • But something like that can actually weirdly take you out of reality.
    Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
  • Review recurring charges, joint expenses, or obligations that have gotten weirdly vague.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 20 July 2026
Adverb
  • At the same time, that made the neighborhood unusually accessible to small businesses.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026
  • Los Angeles designated the Borun House and Garden a Historic-Cultural Monument in 2020, recognizing its unusually intact architecture and landscape.
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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