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Recent Examples of strangely
Adult death is always strangely humiliating but this was something more, conceptually distressing, theoretically immoderate, elaborately unkind.
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Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
But no, for all the talk of taking their game to all four corners of the world, football’s expansionists and modern-day conquistadores seem to have a strangely narrow worldview.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
This strangely constructed palimpsest of a novel is itself a museum of sacred contraband.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Celebrities like Madelyn Cline and influencers like Hayleyy Baylee and, more strangely, the car manufacturer Hyundai have jumped on the trend.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
When these goals aren’t absolutely aligned with both our preferences and the right context, the AI systems will behave strangely.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
The experience felt strangely familiar, not just the game, but the teammates.
—Janis Carr, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
The ensemble sings of hope and brighter days, but the optimism pairs strangely with the backdrop of our present reality.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
But sometimes salt is a problem, as evidenced in a strangely entrancing photography exhibit at Berkeley’s David Brower Center.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
But no, for all the talk of taking their game to all four corners of the world, football’s expansionists and modern-day conquistadores seem to have a strangely narrow worldview.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
This strangely constructed palimpsest of a novel is itself a museum of sacred contraband.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Celebrities like Madelyn Cline and influencers like Hayleyy Baylee and, more strangely, the car manufacturer Hyundai have jumped on the trend.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
When these goals aren’t absolutely aligned with both our preferences and the right context, the AI systems will behave strangely.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
The experience felt strangely familiar, not just the game, but the teammates.
—Janis Carr, Oc Register, 20 Oct. 2025
The ensemble sings of hope and brighter days, but the optimism pairs strangely with the backdrop of our present reality.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
But sometimes salt is a problem, as evidenced in a strangely entrancing photography exhibit at Berkeley’s David Brower Center.
—Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
Adverb
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The next closest team is, oddly enough, the Packers with eight straight games like that.—
Alex Zietlow
November 5,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Nov. 2025
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But with a sizable audience doing research to kill time between installments, the miniseries’ cast boasts an awkward attractiveness that sticks out as oddly inauthentic.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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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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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
Adverb
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But when Sarah goes to the hospital to drop off a card for Dinah, she’s turned away by weirdly hostile staffers.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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Not the polished, PR-ready version — the messy, tender, weirdly specific one.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
26 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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At the Morgan, Rosenkrantz remarked that Hujar had picked an unusually eventful day.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Last month hundreds of trekkers had to be rescued from the northern Chinese side of Everest after unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummelled the Himalayas.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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