as in strangely
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peculiarly
Adverb
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The few songs that remain more or less untouched, while closer to the Gilbert and Sullivan original, stick out and feel sluggish, outdated, and oddly enough, out of place.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2025 -
Busy for a Saturday April 30, 2011, was a warm spring day in Washington, and the White House was oddly abuzz for a weekend.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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There’s also a late plot development that turns the show into a weirdly specific piece of typecasting for one of its actors.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
1 May 2025
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Berube weirdly went back to it again to start Game 5 before pivoting repeatedly to other options, options that never included Max Pacioretty, who spent the most time with Tavares and Nylander during the regular season.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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