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Recent Examples of oddly
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, who has feasted against the Flyers in his career, was oddly quiet for a second straight game.
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Josh Yohe, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
With the moon void in your fourth house of home and family, emotions can feel oddly untethered or nostalgic.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
So somewhat oddly in front of the backdrop of the Bucks’ practice facility, there sat Antetokounmpo for what at times felt like a Heat sales pitch.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
This, oddly enough, seems to be the thing that ultimately changes Walt’s mind.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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Josh Yohe, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
With the moon void in your fourth house of home and family, emotions can feel oddly untethered or nostalgic.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
So somewhat oddly in front of the backdrop of the Bucks’ practice facility, there sat Antetokounmpo for what at times felt like a Heat sales pitch.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
This, oddly enough, seems to be the thing that ultimately changes Walt’s mind.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
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This is both a fault but, strangely, is also through design.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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The night before, Nick Reiner -- who had been living on his parents' property -- got into an argument with Rob Reiner at a holiday party and was seen acting strangely, sources told ABC News.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2026
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But his mouth was open and drooped peculiarly to one side, and his skin was sucked into his skeleton like a vacuum storage bag.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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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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Worst of all, like Zoolander 2 did before it, the film badly miscalculates the value of showbiz and industry cameos, which reach critical mass when the team members fly to Milan and, weirdly, only one of the latter (Donatella Versace, having an awkward lunch with Emily) seems to work.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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The failure of the network computer also made Ellison weirdly recalcitrant about the cloud.—
Elizabeth Lopatto,
The Verge,
29 Apr. 2026
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Of the competitive races, two are unusually contentious.—
Jon Regardie,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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For savers, the Fed's ongoing rate pause has effectively preserved an unusually favorable rate environment, one where yields on certificates of deposit (CDs), high-yield savings accounts and money market accounts remain well above the long-term historical average.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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