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Recent Examples of oddly
The Lyriq has a couple of minor ergonomic shortcomings.
Stylish, but narrow and oddly located, air vents in the instrument panel are harder to direct to the driver than typical vents.
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Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
Families can take part in everything from Berserker Boot Camp to the light-hearted (and oddly popular) Poo Week, where kids recreate Viking coprolites using clay and imagination.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June left some of Wall Street’s most prominent voices feeling oddly nostalgic—and not in a good way.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2025
The temporary crowns did look oddly artificial—like the plastic vampire teeth that children wear, except more elegant.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
Families can take part in everything from Berserker Boot Camp to the light-hearted (and oddly popular) Poo Week, where kids recreate Viking coprolites using clay and imagination.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June left some of Wall Street’s most prominent voices feeling oddly nostalgic—and not in a good way.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2025
The temporary crowns did look oddly artificial—like the plastic vampire teeth that children wear, except more elegant.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
weirdly
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The costumes and music and cinematography are all great and lovingly crafted, though at times a shot here or there looked weirdly fake.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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McKean gives his all with the performance, becoming, weirdly, one of the scariest villains in the franchise.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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