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Recent Examples of strangely
Although no publicly available evaluation has classified Stines as mentally deficient, a number of coworkers and friends interviewed by state police said Stines was acting strangely in the days leading up to the shooting of Mullins.
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Andy Rose, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Stealerium, strangely, is distributed as a free, open source tool available on GitHub.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
In the long run, though, Duse is mostly a stylish stream of scenes from a life, however fabulously and strangely that life was lived.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
When closed, the Fold 7 (shockingly) feels like any normal phone, and the outer display isn’t strangely narrow like past Samsung Fold devices.
—Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Time itself begins to falter — clocks spin strangely, pipes clog without reason, and most tragically, Lucius’ once-perfect soufflés have gone from magical to inedible.
—Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Yet there’s something strangely inert about Jay Kelly.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Since the nineties, the Birch Glacier, which covered an area of about fourteen city blocks, had been behaving strangely.
—Daniel A. Gross, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
Cleaning stops feeling like a workout and starts feeling strangely satisfying.
—PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
Andy Rose, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Stealerium, strangely, is distributed as a free, open source tool available on GitHub.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
In the long run, though, Duse is mostly a stylish stream of scenes from a life, however fabulously and strangely that life was lived.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
When closed, the Fold 7 (shockingly) feels like any normal phone, and the outer display isn’t strangely narrow like past Samsung Fold devices.
—Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Time itself begins to falter — clocks spin strangely, pipes clog without reason, and most tragically, Lucius’ once-perfect soufflés have gone from magical to inedible.
—Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Yet there’s something strangely inert about Jay Kelly.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Since the nineties, the Birch Glacier, which covered an area of about fourteen city blocks, had been behaving strangely.
—Daniel A. Gross, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
Cleaning stops feeling like a workout and starts feeling strangely satisfying.
—PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
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Artem Bolshakov/iStock / Getty Images Plus TikTok users were quick to weigh in on Wilson's video, with many finding the décor both hilarious and oddly appealing.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Just weeks after a previous UFO turned out to be a drifting hot water heater, their second mystery fizzled out just as oddly.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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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
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Guests arrived to the ceremony via ferry — a weirdly poetic parallel to the guest transportation for Connor's Succession season 4 wedding ceremony.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Earlier this year, a titanium mine was slated for construction on the edge of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, an unusually diverse ecosystem that is home to some of the country’s most pristine wetlands.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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The film’s unusually long running time of 174 minutes would likely have required its images to be pretty heavily compressed to fit them onto a 66GB disc, but 100GB will hopefully give the remaster room to breathe.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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