peculiarly

Definition of peculiarlynext

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Recent Examples of peculiarly Building a wall may even be its own kind of narrative project—a peculiarly linear one. Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026 This peculiarly stubborn barrier to the franchise held strong until Puerto Rican citizens took it to court, finally succeeding 60 years ago today, June 13, 1966. Robert Polner, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026 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 One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature. Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026 Facing a peculiarly hostile administration in Washington, Pretoria has ample reason to pursue greater intra-BRICS cooperation—not out of ideological affinity with its members but out of the strategic necessity to protect itself against an erratic and punitive United States. Oliver Stuenkel, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2025 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peculiarly
Adverb
  • Banks nearly had another one on Winston in the final 11-on-11 situational period, but the ball clanged off his hands near the goal line … Dart strangely lowered his shoulder on a QB run to the right on one play and made some contact with defenders.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Watching the slow, unthinking undulations of Technicolor bells trailing lengthy tentacles like slo-mo ribbon dancers is strangely soothing.
    Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • There’s something oddly binding about being on a family phone plan.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The latter is already a two-time Grammy winner – both in rap fields, oddly – while Scott has collected 10 nominations at music’s biggest night without ever taking home a trophy.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • An unusually intense El Niño event is gathering strength in the tropical Pacific in a hurry.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • This reframes Florida’s position in fifth place, where its unusually large elderly driving population likely acts as a multiplier, helping contextualize why Texas and California remain in the upper tier.
    Matthew MacConnell, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • In an extraordinarily fast ruling, the justices heard arguments on both cases last week, took a brief recess, and then immediately made an oral ruling from the bench in favor of the challengers.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
  • So the self dissolves into the community, which is extraordinarily beautiful.
    Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 30 July 2026
Adverb
  • Goldberg, his fellow Canadian, co-directed with him the weirdly uneven apocalyptic comedy bravely titled This Is the End, which proved to be neither a hit nor the end.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 30 July 2026
  • In late 2024, X weirdly ended up withdrawing its application for a money transmitter license in the state.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

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“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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