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Recent Examples of oddly
The leathery, oddly jacked old men who make their gender hangups everyone else’s problem.
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
The single thread throughout this herky-jerky tale is, oddly enough, the novels of Charles Dickens, taught by James’ grandfather, absorbed by James and quoted endlessly by Irving.
—The Know, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
Goldman then got his own package, one that had been oddly tampered with, and got a juicy callback in the film.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
But oddly enough, since the Rangers lost Artemi Panarin, Lafrenière has picked up the scoring pace.
—Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
The single thread throughout this herky-jerky tale is, oddly enough, the novels of Charles Dickens, taught by James’ grandfather, absorbed by James and quoted endlessly by Irving.
—The Know, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
Goldman then got his own package, one that had been oddly tampered with, and got a juicy callback in the film.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
But oddly enough, since the Rangers lost Artemi Panarin, Lafrenière has picked up the scoring pace.
—Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
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There’s something about the architectural scale of Los Angeles Chinatown that has always struck me as somewhere between convincingly authentic and strangely artificial.—
Xuan Juliana Wang,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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And the title track features what sounds like a bouzouki riff, although it is let down by strangely disposable lyrics on what might be the least enigmatic song Morrissey has ever sung.—
Ben Cardew,
Pitchfork,
10 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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Facing a peculiarly hostile administration in Washington, Pretoria has ample reason to pursue greater intra-BRICS cooperation—not out of ideological affinity with its members but out of the strategic necessity to protect itself against an erratic and punitive United States.—
OLIVER STUENKEL,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Nov. 2025
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The filmmaker, known for marrying smart social commentary with weirdly believable magical realism, appears to be doubling down on what’s working for him.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Mar. 2026
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In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
12 Mar. 2026
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Attacks on Gulf states continued Friday with Saudi Arabia's defense ministry saying its air defenses downed more than three dozen drones headed toward the kingdom's Eastern Province over the span of a few hours, marking an unusually large barrage.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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My younger daughter, who was at a friend’s house when this all went down, had an unusually hard time going to bed.—
Nicole Frehsee Mazur,
Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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