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Recent Examples of strangely
In the series finale, in which every character meets their demise, Keith owns his own security company but is strangely still physically moving cash around in an armored truck when he is gunned down in the year 2029.
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Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Scenes of the humanist Mann speaking earnestly to auditoriums full of people who likely do not hear him are strangely resonant with today.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Part of the problem is that Otone, whose maternal feelings are the heart of the story, is a strangely one-note character.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2026
But after a few minutes, the ride felt strangely normal.
—Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Michael Armitage, a British painter born in Kenya, updates old-style history painting with fresher, journalistic impulses to produce compositions—of chicken thieves, migrants crammed on rafts, crowds facing COVID-era curfews—that feel strangely dreamlike.
—Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
At 92, the actress brought a blast of old Hollywood glamour to a festival that, this year especially, has often felt strangely drained of it.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
Someone may have a job, a family, friends, a home and reasons to feel grateful, yet still feel strangely disconnected from joy.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
The atmosphere at the Palace game was strangely subdued, to begin with, lacking the edge or jeopardy that would usually be associated at this stage of the season.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
Scenes of the humanist Mann speaking earnestly to auditoriums full of people who likely do not hear him are strangely resonant with today.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Part of the problem is that Otone, whose maternal feelings are the heart of the story, is a strangely one-note character.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2026
But after a few minutes, the ride felt strangely normal.
—Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Michael Armitage, a British painter born in Kenya, updates old-style history painting with fresher, journalistic impulses to produce compositions—of chicken thieves, migrants crammed on rafts, crowds facing COVID-era curfews—that feel strangely dreamlike.
—Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
At 92, the actress brought a blast of old Hollywood glamour to a festival that, this year especially, has often felt strangely drained of it.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
Someone may have a job, a family, friends, a home and reasons to feel grateful, yet still feel strangely disconnected from joy.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
The atmosphere at the Palace game was strangely subdued, to begin with, lacking the edge or jeopardy that would usually be associated at this stage of the season.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
Adverb
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Yet both can break, rendering them oddly both permanent and fragile.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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But the Pathfinder oddly does not offer a navigation system.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
18 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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Researchers found unusually high hantavirus levels in rodents in the Pacific Northwest, suggesting greater exposure risk in the surrounding agricultural communities.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2026
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The one oddity is that hydroelectric production has surged without a corresponding increase in capacity, likely due to unusually warm weather in the western US causing the snowpack to melt early.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2026
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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