peculiarly

Definition of peculiarlynext

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Recent Examples of peculiarly Building a wall may even be its own kind of narrative project—a peculiarly linear one. Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026 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. 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
Adverb
  • Their LinkedIn profiles sound polished but strangely interchangeable.
    John M. O'Connor, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Adverb
  • The whole scene was framed by the oddly skinny rectangular window of their van.
    Sarah Silbiger, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • Despite the conversations on AI and the state of the art market, the Summit seemed oddly unfocused.
    Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 21 July 2026
Adverb
  • At the same time, that made the neighborhood unusually accessible to small businesses.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026
  • Los Angeles designated the Borun House and Garden a Historic-Cultural Monument in 2020, recognizing its unusually intact architecture and landscape.
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Adverb
  • Just as important, the Institute is now able to process extraordinarily large genomes, including mistletoe at nearly 100 gigabase pairs, or roughly 30 times the size of a human genome.
    Hayley Tabor, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • For all their seeming fragility, monarchs will be an extraordinarily capable partner in efforts to save them.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Adverb
  • But something like that can actually weirdly take you out of reality.
    Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
  • Review recurring charges, joint expenses, or obligations that have gotten weirdly vague.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 20 July 2026

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“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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