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Recent Examples of out-of-the-way
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Meanwhile, Ojibwe chef Bryce Stevenson, a key figure in the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement and a 2024 James Beard Award semifinalist, took a big gamble in 2023 by choosing his out-of-the-way home turf as the location for a high-concept restaurant, Miijim. Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024 Having somehow returned, firmly, to the real world, the narrator decides to quit his job and start working in a library in a small, out-of-the-way town in Fukushima Prefecture. Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024 Many who were imprisoned there, and at similar camps scattered in out-of-the-way corners of the country, spent the rest of their lives trying to erase the memory. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024 Label and stack them in an out-of-the-way place, like under the sink or the linen closet. Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for out-of-the-way
Recent Examples of Synonyms for out-of-the-way
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  • The esoteric will never sit completely comfortably in the mainstream, because that’s the point of it: to be unusual, bizarre, absurd.
    Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • So many of the characters on this show speak with such bizarre, precise dialogue that can only make sense in the Severance world.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
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  • Network security also gets a significant upgrade with the help of AI. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) powered by AI monitor traffic in real time, can flag unusual patterns that might indicate a security breach.
    Kathleen Walch, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
  • As a result, Canadians have rejected American imports and issued other economic punishments in an unusual show of patriotism.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Mar. 2025
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  • But a blinkered narrative coupled with misty-eyed aesthetic choices yield a strange and scattershot result.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Yet even on the Right, setting policy based on birth rates might have seemed strange a few years ago, when the Republican Party was best known for its libertarian emphasis on free markets and economic growth.
    Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Mar. 2025
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  • Conflicting casualty figures are not uncommon in the immediate aftermath of attacks in Syria's 13-year conflict that has killed half a million people.
    Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Though reports of explosions at Iranian military sites are uncommon, past incidents have occurred.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Yes and no, which is a really weird thing about me.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The weirdest thing about it relative to those older pre-M2 Airs is still the display notch, a small cutout at the top of the screen that houses the camera.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Know your audience—What one person finds funny, another might not.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Not the most memorable, but Myers’s flail-laughing at his own insufferable jokes remains a pretty funny encapsulation of Musk’s self-satisfied riffing.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
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  • The Mountain West got four teams in the bracket, but Boise State was the odd one out despite wins over Clemson and Saint Mary’s.
    Tess DeMeyer, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • While early iterations of generative AI often yielded odd or impractical results, today’s models rival professionals thanks to decades of breakthroughs.
    Haokun Qin, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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  • Situated on a rare half-acre-plus lot, this home offers unparalleled privacy and tranquility.
    Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Boasting fresh restorations and rare screenings of difficult to get prints, past seasons have been devoted to filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk or studios such as last year’s retrospective, The Lady with the Torch, which celebrated the centenary of Columbia Pictures.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Out-of-the-way.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/out-of-the-way. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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