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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.
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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.
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Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Aug. 2025
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
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The salon itself feels like a nostalgic millennial dreamscape, with a clean, playful aesthetic that’s strangely comforting.
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The only rejoinder to that is Sinner has had a strangely fraught time of it at the Slams — relatively speaking — since winning Wimbledon a year ago.
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The longevity-industrial complex tends to frame this question in oddly specific ways.
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The start-stop button is also oddly positioned and has a flimsy touch functionality.
Adverb
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Persistent fatigue despite adequate sleep, dizziness, breathlessness, brain fog, low mood, brittle nails, hair fall, feeling unusually cold, and changes in skin quality all signal low ferritin levels.
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An unusually dry and hot winter has created dangerously flammable conditions in forests and grasslands across the West.
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The trio stand out among other USA fans for their extraordinarily patriotic costumes.
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Millions of Canadians will continue visiting the United States every year, and the cultural and geographic relationship between the two countries remains extraordinarily close.
Adverb
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And what better way to get used to the pressure that comes with playing for the Leafs than by tackling one of the most weirdly high-pressure scenarios in all of sports?
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But Janicza, weirdly, talks about it all the time.
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“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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