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Recent Examples of oddly
Marie also eliminated the oddly situated laundry from between the bathroom and living area and turned it into a chic open workstation.
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Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar,
Architectural Digest,
23 June 2026
Today is personal, and everyone suddenly has opinions, expectations or oddly specific needs.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
Seen on celebs like Chloë Sevigny and Dua Lipa, and cosigned by designers like Sandy Liang, the oddly appealing shoe was made for the airport.
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Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
21 June 2026
Whether that effort survives the year is now, oddly, less a question for insurance regulators than for the courts.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar,
Architectural Digest,
23 June 2026
Today is personal, and everyone suddenly has opinions, expectations or oddly specific needs.
—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
Seen on celebs like Chloë Sevigny and Dua Lipa, and cosigned by designers like Sandy Liang, the oddly appealing shoe was made for the airport.
—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
21 June 2026
Whether that effort survives the year is now, oddly, less a question for insurance regulators than for the courts.
—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
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The salon itself feels like a nostalgic millennial dreamscape, with a clean, playful aesthetic that’s strangely comforting.
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The only rejoinder to that is Sinner has had a strangely fraught time of it at the Slams — relatively speaking — since winning Wimbledon a year ago.
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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.
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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.
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But Janicza, weirdly, talks about it all the time.
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The shifter is tiny and weirdly unsatisfying for a car with this much bratty energy.
Adverb
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Persistent fatigue despite adequate sleep, dizziness, breathlessness, brain fog, low mood, brittle nails, hair fall, feeling unusually cold, and changes in skin quality all signal low ferritin levels.
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An unusually dry and hot winter has created dangerously flammable conditions in forests and grasslands across the West.
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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