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Adverb
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The bulk of this month’s business, perhaps strangely, belonged to last season’s two FA Cup finalists.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026 -
The labor market has behaved strangely since the pandemic.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
31 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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Being told you sound like AI, then, can feel oddly dehumanizing.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
9 Feb. 2026
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Gates bought the Xanadu land in 1988 for just $2 million—then proceeded to pour about $63 million into the property, which has 24 bathrooms, but oddly just seven bedrooms.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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But last year, one of the state’s 10 resurgent wolf packs became unusually habituated to hunting and eating livestock instead of wild prey.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Park City, Utah, one of the West’s most beloved ski destinations, is having an unusually difficult season.—
Alex Schechter,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Queerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queerly. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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