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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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The moons range from planet-size Titan to smaller oddities, some of which are strangely shaped like potatoes or ravioli.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2026
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But campuses across the country—places where, just two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad to protest Israel’s war against Hamas—are strangely silent.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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For married couples, oddly enough, the lowest overall tax rate is not in Florida or Nevada, but in Tennessee.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
6 Apr. 2026
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The service Plentiful, youthful, and uniformly charming (though the stiff, ice-blue staff uniforms are oddly unflattering).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Officials say the snowpack peaked unusually early this year, in late February.—
Brady Halbleib,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Biennials make this metabolism unusually visible.—
Manuela Moscoso,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Dinner was a delicate salad that Joan had made from thirty-seven dollars’ worth of farmers’-market produce, and a fresh pasta from an extraordinarily expensive local business that the residents of the Lower Haight enthusiastically supported.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Planet Earth contains some extraordinarily diverse environments, some of which are easily habitable and some not so much.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Those weirdly addictive Planters PB Crisps?—
Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2026
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Shopping for tech is weirdly all or nothing.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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