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Recent Examples of peculiarly
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.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Aug. 2025
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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My first apartment on 15th and Union Square was a studio in a classy old building with marble pillars, one small room with a bigger bathroom and strangely an even bigger closet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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The tone is both confrontational and strangely paternal.—
Jayson Buford,
Rolling Stone,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The next closest team is, oddly enough, the Packers with eight straight games like that.—
Alex Zietlow
November 5,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Nov. 2025
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But with a sizable audience doing research to kill time between installments, the miniseries’ cast boasts an awkward attractiveness that sticks out as oddly inauthentic.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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At the Morgan, Rosenkrantz remarked that Hujar had picked an unusually eventful day.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Last month hundreds of trekkers had to be rescued from the northern Chinese side of Everest after unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummelled the Himalayas.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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But the Nanotyrannus specimen is 100% complete, which is extraordinarily rare in the fossil record, Napoli noted.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is extraordinarily effective, according to the CDC.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
28 Oct. 2025
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But when Sarah goes to the hospital to drop off a card for Dinah, she’s turned away by weirdly hostile staffers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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Not the polished, PR-ready version — the messy, tender, weirdly specific one.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
26 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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