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Recent Examples of peculiarly
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.
—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
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
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February 19 – March 20 Practical choices can feel strangely comforting now.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Cherry had gone out for the first time since Tom left to do something just for herself—she’d gone out by herself for maybe the first time ever—and this strangely perfect night was here waiting for her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Through all these threads, The Audacity throws itself headlong at some of tech’s biggest hot-button topics, including privacy, AI and, in an oddly halfhearted subplot involving JoAnne’s son, Everett Bliunck’s Orson, the manosphere, with an eye as cold as its characters.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
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Evan graduated from Georgia State University, but oddly is a Georgia fan.—
Staff Writter,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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This year, after unusually heavy rains in February, Carrizo Plain erupted in a dramatic bloom in March, attracting several hundred visitors per day.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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He is measured by temperament, analytical by training (Princeton, Harvard, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey), and unusually candid about what keeps him up at night.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Despite their small size, the fish undertake an extraordinarily demanding climb that has been likened to a salmon scaling something as extreme as Niagara Falls or even the CN Tower.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2026
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The digital world can appear to be an extraordinarily novel domain.—
David B Mcgarry,
Oc Register,
9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Her squid-ink flavor profile was one note, and her monkfish had a weirdly wet and spongy texture that Rhoda defends but that none of the judges can figure out.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2026
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Still annoyed, weirdly offended, and slightly spiraling.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
6 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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