peculiarly

Definition of peculiarlynext

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Recent Examples of peculiarly 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
  • The Lobby Still Feels Like The Faust Walking into the lobby again after being away for more than two years felt strangely reassuring.
    Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 11 July 2026
  • At the bottom of the rankings sits former USMNT striker Jozy Altidore, who has suited up for a single Advil commercial, although that’s one more airing than the strangely absent Harry Kane.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 July 2026
Adverb
  • Noctilucent clouds keep glowing with an oddly cold brightness.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 July 2026
  • And how spending time in the unpredictable, immensely powerful and ever-changing sea is so oddly grounding.
    Heather Hiett, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
Adverb
  • All of the indications are that this has been an unusually happy England camp so far.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • People may also have unusually bad gas, stomach cramps and nausea.
    Dennis Romero, NBC news, 13 July 2026
Adverb
  • His facial proportions are regarded as extraordinarily harmonious, his features exceptionally balanced, and his jawline and bone structure almost uncannily aligned with the community’s preferred metrics.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
  • Iyad el-Baghdadi, a prominent Palestinian in Norway who was accepted as a refugee, said that Norwegians had been extraordinarily welcoming and kind.
    Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
Adverb
  • Chunks of flesh fly after a weirdly convoluted introduction to a family possessed.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • But Killing Daddy definitely wins out for being both weirdly perverse and pleasantly succinct.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

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“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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