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Recent Examples of oddly
Make a turn at Bar Chimera’s host stand and descend a dark and oddly narrow staircase.
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
To identify those missing puzzle pieces, astronomers have now zeroed in on a cluster of metal-lacking stars detected oddly close to the galactic disk, according to a study published in May in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
This version of Colorado, by contrast, looks oddly resigned at the first sign of any real trouble.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
His story oddly mirrors Luke Skywalker's, actually.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 22 May 2026
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
To identify those missing puzzle pieces, astronomers have now zeroed in on a cluster of metal-lacking stars detected oddly close to the galactic disk, according to a study published in May in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
This version of Colorado, by contrast, looks oddly resigned at the first sign of any real trouble.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
His story oddly mirrors Luke Skywalker's, actually.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 22 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
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There was also, again strangely, slightly more clipping on show in very bright areas in the Bravia 9 II’s Standard and Movie presets than there was on the original Bravia 9, even though the Bravia 9 II actually displayed less clipping than its predecessor in Professional mode.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Becoming trapped in a generic, seemingly empty world offers the opposite experience—frightening and yet, at the same time, maybe strangely appealing.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 May 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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The laugh was, weirdly, really important to me.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2026
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Loafers can sometimes feel weirdly stiff straight out of the box, but this popular Uptown pair skips that painful break-in phase.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
25 May 2026
Adverb
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The restrictions started as the Charlotte region sank deeper into severe and extreme drought this spring after months of unusually dry weather.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2026
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Democrats’ unusually slow ballot returns hint at either strategic last-minute voting or voter fatigue, despite record-breaking campaign spending.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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