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In Park Slope, on 9th Street just past Eighth Avenue, the crowds flowing out of Prospect Park sometimes stop to gawk at a row of oddly whimsical townhouses.
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2025
In French’s telling, Ghanaian independence feels almost inevitable—the British never had a feasible plan to stop it—and so its arrival is oddly anticlimactic.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
And why is the density of dark energy so close to the density of regular matter, an oddly neat coincidence?
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2025
National parks will be open, oddly.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2025
In French’s telling, Ghanaian independence feels almost inevitable—the British never had a feasible plan to stop it—and so its arrival is oddly anticlimactic.
—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
And why is the density of dark energy so close to the density of regular matter, an oddly neat coincidence?
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2025
National parks will be open, oddly.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
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Adult death is always strangely humiliating but this was something more, conceptually distressing, theoretically immoderate, elaborately unkind.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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But no, for all the talk of taking their game to all four corners of the world, football’s expansionists and modern-day conquistadores seem to have a strangely narrow worldview.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In the early twentieth century, Einstein formulated equations for the peculiarly relative flow of time, now an indispensable part of the workings of all GPS systems.—
Alan Lightman
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 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
Adverb
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This all comes back to the choice of Mel as the Golden Bachelor pick and, weirdly, ABC’s decision to make these episodes only an hour long.—
Ali Barthwell,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2025
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The persistent wobble is wildly and weirdly terrifying.—
Sally Singer,
Vogue,
10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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With a displacement of 443 GT, the vessel is compact yet delivers an unusually large amount of exterior deck space.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2025
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The intensification was powered by unusually warm sea water in the Caribbean, which provides the energy for the storm to gather strength.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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