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Recent Examples of oddly
Many of the tiny faces are blurry and oddly unrecognizable at best.
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Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Dreaming of a better life for his kids and niece, Maeve (Emilia Jones), Robbie’s pursuit of justice looks different than Tom’s, but the show pits their trajectories parallel to each other on a path to mutually assured destruction and, oddly, revelation.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
And oddly, Wallace has not seen any work at tackle this summer.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Dreaming of a better life for his kids and niece, Maeve (Emilia Jones), Robbie’s pursuit of justice looks different than Tom’s, but the show pits their trajectories parallel to each other on a path to mutually assured destruction and, oddly, revelation.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
And oddly, Wallace has not seen any work at tackle this summer.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
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Although no publicly available evaluation has classified Stines as mentally deficient, a number of coworkers and friends interviewed by state police said Stines was acting strangely in the days leading up to the shooting of Mullins.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Stealerium, strangely, is distributed as a free, open source tool available on GitHub.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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So, Orange County in the late 1970s and early 1980s seems a peculiarly unlikely place to have a hardcore punk rock scene.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Aug. 2025
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Guests arrived to the ceremony via ferry — a weirdly poetic parallel to the guest transportation for Connor's Succession season 4 wedding ceremony.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Earlier this year, a titanium mine was slated for construction on the edge of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, an unusually diverse ecosystem that is home to some of the country’s most pristine wetlands.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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The film’s unusually long running time of 174 minutes would likely have required its images to be pretty heavily compressed to fit them onto a 66GB disc, but 100GB will hopefully give the remaster room to breathe.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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