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Recent Examples of oddly
Jung was oddly endorsed by the Republican Lincoln Club.
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John Seiler, Oc Register, 4 June 2026
Her belief in a universal truth was not unique, but her pursuit of it was relentless and oddly self-erasing.
—Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 3 June 2026
But for some reason, the museum was oddly reluctant to let a bunch of archaeologists hit their anatomical collection with sharp rocks to document the results.
—ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
The scene was genuinely awful to watch, but the movie—a story of plague, passion, period costumes, and an unwashed man in a tunic skipping town to cure writer’s block—ended up thrilling us; the portrayal of two creative minds working together (and apart) was, oddly, familiar.
—Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
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John Seiler, Oc Register, 4 June 2026
Her belief in a universal truth was not unique, but her pursuit of it was relentless and oddly self-erasing.
—Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 3 June 2026
But for some reason, the museum was oddly reluctant to let a bunch of archaeologists hit their anatomical collection with sharp rocks to document the results.
—ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026
The scene was genuinely awful to watch, but the movie—a story of plague, passion, period costumes, and an unwashed man in a tunic skipping town to cure writer’s block—ended up thrilling us; the portrayal of two creative minds working together (and apart) was, oddly, familiar.
—Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
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Watching it today feels strangely familiar.—
Time,
Time,
10 June 2026
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Many party guests noticed Nick acting strangely, the friends said.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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Mammals are weirdly easy to get right.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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Some particularly outrageous one-liners about race snuck into the film’s final cut, although much of its dicier material comes off as weirdly effortful instead of provocative or reckless.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
4 June 2026
Adverb
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Richards-Slavik said the acreage stays unusually green for foothill country and is dotted with mature oaks.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
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The unusually long list of uncontested races highlights the increasingly safe nature of many legislative districts in South Florida.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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