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Recent Examples of oddly
That’s oddly fitting for a film so deeply concerned with the violence of fetishization (particularly given how often Quentin Tarantino’s own revisionist genre work has sparked conversations around cultural exploitation and artistic entitlement).
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 May 2026
Heidi told us that the night of the fire, Safra's private force of security guards were, oddly, not on site.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 17 May 2026
There is a black landline that is, oddly, frequently in use and an electric calculator used to tally up bills.
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
Chloe Claudel, picking up on that thread, directs the play in a cleverly glitchy mode, giving you normality with sudden, jolting gestures that move it into territory that’s unsettling, hilarious, or oddly serene.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 May 2026
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 May 2026
Heidi told us that the night of the fire, Safra's private force of security guards were, oddly, not on site.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 17 May 2026
There is a black landline that is, oddly, frequently in use and an electric calculator used to tally up bills.
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
Chloe Claudel, picking up on that thread, directs the play in a cleverly glitchy mode, giving you normality with sudden, jolting gestures that move it into territory that’s unsettling, hilarious, or oddly serene.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
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Since the moon is also void for nearly the entire day, before entering Aries later this evening, the energy could feel strangely unsettled.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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And, strangely, both were onto something.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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Yet for those who can afford to buy a ticket, golf is weirdly accessible.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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So there’s this thing that’s uniting them weirdly through loss.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
5 May 2026
Adverb
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This could come as something of a shock to people who have been shivering under sweaters and blankets during an unusually chilly spring.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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But Le Corroller is definitely in charge here, orchestrating the squishy mayhem right up to the unusually bleak climax that fully delivers on the premise.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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