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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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Work, routines and private emotions could feel strangely entangled, especially if someone’s behavior is living rent-free in your mind.
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As the Argentines moved forward again, Messi was strangely unmarked at the edge of the box.
Adverb
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Pastimes and people are oddly matched.
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Seen on celebs like Chloë Sevigny and Dua Lipa, and cosigned by designers like Sandy Liang, the oddly appealing shoe was made for the airport.
Adverb
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Actress Park Eun-bin is offering unusually candid insights into her new Netflix superhero comedy, *WONDERfools*, a departure from her *Extraordinary Attorney Woo* role.
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The unusually large shift in Secret Service funds comes amid revelations that the president’s ballroom project will rely more on taxpayer money than the administration acknowledged.
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Then let conventional software do what conventional software has done extraordinarily well for decades and execute those rules consistently until the next update arrives.
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Factors affecting crew selection Professional astronauts of any kind are extraordinarily capable.
Adverb
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The shifter is tiny and weirdly unsatisfying for a car with this much bratty energy.
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That, weirdly, opened things up for me.
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“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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