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Recent Examples of oddly
The man arrested, Lee Harvey Oswald, had defected to the Soviet Union and then, oddly, re-defected back to the United States.
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
The scene is uncomfortable and oddly brief; unusually for an actor-director, Dickinson doesn’t go in for showy scenes and leaves a lot to be inferred.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 May 2025
Yet their evaluations of CIA excesses are oddly muted, as if botched attempts to murder foreign leaders were just another form of intelligence failure.
—James Santel, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
According to video obtained by Fox News Digital, people who were in the courthouse when the shots rang out were interviewed by the Kentucky State Police just after the shooting, and described Stines as acting oddly before and during lunch.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
The scene is uncomfortable and oddly brief; unusually for an actor-director, Dickinson doesn’t go in for showy scenes and leaves a lot to be inferred.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 May 2025
Yet their evaluations of CIA excesses are oddly muted, as if botched attempts to murder foreign leaders were just another form of intelligence failure.
—James Santel, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
According to video obtained by Fox News Digital, people who were in the courthouse when the shots rang out were interviewed by the Kentucky State Police just after the shooting, and described Stines as acting oddly before and during lunch.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
weirdly
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But to this point, Ellie has been written as weirdly unbothered most of the time about Joel’s death to the point where this mission has felt like a fun road trip with Dina outside of the occasionally running away from Clickers or WLF.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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Characters face countless obstacles in the endlessly dangerous and hopeless landscape of The Last of Us—but imperfect hair, weirdly, is not one of them.—
Leah Prinzivalli,
Allure,
11 May 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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