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Recent Examples of oddly
But plenty are amateurs; in the past, lots of dentists, oddly enough.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026
The weather in New Jersey was oddly cold last week, so the grass got covered with a blanket each night.
—Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer lights up your fourth house of home, family and emotional security, making today feel tender, nostalgic and oddly generous.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
Trump oddly has said nothing on this today … stay tuned.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 June 2026
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026
The weather in New Jersey was oddly cold last week, so the grass got covered with a blanket each night.
—Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer lights up your fourth house of home, family and emotional security, making today feel tender, nostalgic and oddly generous.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
Trump oddly has said nothing on this today … stay tuned.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
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Work, routines and private emotions could feel strangely entangled, especially if someone’s behavior is living rent-free in your mind.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
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As the Argentines moved forward again, Messi was strangely unmarked at the edge of the box.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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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.—
Robert Polner,
New York Daily News,
13 June 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
Adverb
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The shifter is tiny and weirdly unsatisfying for a car with this much bratty energy.—
Josh Max,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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That, weirdly, opened things up for me.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
Adverb
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Actress Park Eun-bin is offering unusually candid insights into her new Netflix superhero comedy, *WONDERfools*, a departure from her *Extraordinary Attorney Woo* role.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The unusually large shift in Secret Service funds comes amid revelations that the president’s ballroom project will rely more on taxpayer money than the administration acknowledged.—
Jonathan O'Connell,
Washington Post,
18 June 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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