peculiarly

Definition of peculiarlynext

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Recent Examples of peculiarly Photography, then, is an expression of our peculiarly cruel way of seeing. Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026 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
  • These incongruous people end up dying in the same dragon fire and looking the same way in a strangely intimate sort of pose.
    Matt Minton, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
  • No one has done more to explain Silicon Valley’s founding mythology—or to show how the industry has rendered the material consequences of its power strangely invisible.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • The docuseries is inspired by and draws from the 2008 nonfiction book, The Lizard King, by Bryan Christy (oddly, not about The Doors frontman, Jim Morrison).
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • My doctor, a pregnant Asian woman also in her 40s, looked oddly like a teenager carrying her own baby to term.
    Nhi Mundy, Allure, 6 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Over the next 710 days, Earth will experience three total solar eclipses visible from Europe, Africa and Australia, giving travelers an unusually accessible chance to witness one of nature’s rarest spectacles.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • If both deals materialize, Nigeria could be heading for an unusually consequential moment in public ownership and domestic capital formation.
    Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • While neither company announced pricing (likely high), production volume (likely low), or customer availability (likely extraordinarily scarce), the two cars make the underlying proposition clear.
    Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • And, in fact, for all of the shock value in his writing and swipes at the food establishment, Bourdain became extraordinarily generous and even sweet as his fame grew, quick to heap praise, especially for writers and chefs on the rise.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • So, with the Season 2 writers’ room underway, what will Gilligan’s weirdly-accurate crystal ball come up with next?
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 5 Aug. 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 14 Aug. 2026.

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