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Recent Examples of strangely
Since the moon is also void for nearly the entire day, before entering Aries later this evening, the energy could feel strangely unsettled.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
And, strangely, both were onto something.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
The bodies float in an undefined space, at once intimate and strangely cosmic.
—George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026
This is both a fault but, strangely, is also through design.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
The night before, Nick Reiner -- who had been living on his parents' property -- got into an argument with Rob Reiner at a holiday party and was seen acting strangely, sources told ABC News.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
From the beginning, the filing says, Donaldson behaved strangely around her, excluded her from meetings that had bearing on her work, once asked her to leave a meeting, and sometimes refused to engage with her.
—Irin Carmon, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Watching junior right-hander Fabian Bravo of Sun Valley Poly High pitch for the first time, there was something strangely familiar about his windup.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
But there also were instances, once the Tribune brought these issues to the attention of the city and the firms, in which the law firms themselves discovered clerical errors (strangely always in their favor).
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
And, strangely, both were onto something.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
The bodies float in an undefined space, at once intimate and strangely cosmic.
—George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026
This is both a fault but, strangely, is also through design.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
The night before, Nick Reiner -- who had been living on his parents' property -- got into an argument with Rob Reiner at a holiday party and was seen acting strangely, sources told ABC News.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
From the beginning, the filing says, Donaldson behaved strangely around her, excluded her from meetings that had bearing on her work, once asked her to leave a meeting, and sometimes refused to engage with her.
—Irin Carmon, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Watching junior right-hander Fabian Bravo of Sun Valley Poly High pitch for the first time, there was something strangely familiar about his windup.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
But there also were instances, once the Tribune brought these issues to the attention of the city and the firms, in which the law firms themselves discovered clerical errors (strangely always in their favor).
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
Adverb
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The image is both comic and oddly fitting, encapsulating the strange coexistence of weight and surface that runs through both Spark’s fiction and Schiaparelli’s design.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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Given Juanito’s tragic death in a car accident years ago, the reference felt unnecessary and oddly timed.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
9 May 2026
Adverb
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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
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One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Yet for those who can afford to buy a ticket, golf is weirdly accessible.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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So there’s this thing that’s uniting them weirdly through loss.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
5 May 2026
Adverb
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This could come as something of a shock to people who have been shivering under sweaters and blankets during an unusually chilly spring.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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But Le Corroller is definitely in charge here, orchestrating the squishy mayhem right up to the unusually bleak climax that fully delivers on the premise.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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