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Recent Examples of strangely
My first apartment on 15th and Union Square was a studio in a classy old building with marble pillars, one small room with a bigger bathroom and strangely an even bigger closet.
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The tone is both confrontational and strangely paternal.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
That changed in May 2024, when Arden and her partner moved into a new house and noticed Fern acting strangely.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Liberation's women are, strangely, both behind and ahead of their present-day spectators.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
That was the same month that Perry resigned the planet, taking a strangely disastrous celebrity trip into the earth’s thermosphere.
—Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
The subject in ChatGPT’s video is strangely kneeling down to drink his tea.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Lanthimos’ films written with Filippou are dark, odd and abrasive, but unpredictable and anarchic in a strangely enchanting way.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
Adult death is always strangely humiliating but this was something more, conceptually distressing, theoretically immoderate, elaborately unkind.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The tone is both confrontational and strangely paternal.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
That changed in May 2024, when Arden and her partner moved into a new house and noticed Fern acting strangely.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Liberation's women are, strangely, both behind and ahead of their present-day spectators.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
That was the same month that Perry resigned the planet, taking a strangely disastrous celebrity trip into the earth’s thermosphere.
—Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
The subject in ChatGPT’s video is strangely kneeling down to drink his tea.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Lanthimos’ films written with Filippou are dark, odd and abrasive, but unpredictable and anarchic in a strangely enchanting way.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
Adult death is always strangely humiliating but this was something more, conceptually distressing, theoretically immoderate, elaborately unkind.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 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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Earlier this year, OpenAI rolled back an update to ChatGPT after the bot became weirdly overeager to please its users, complimenting even the most comically bad or dangerous ideas.—
Damon Beres,
The Atlantic,
5 Nov. 2025
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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
Adverb
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Temperatures are expected to gradually moderate later in the week, but the current chill underscores the need for continued attention to weather alerts and safety practices as the unusually cold air mass exits the state.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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When ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific are close to average — not unusually warm like El Niño or unusually cool like La Niña — scientists refer to it as ENSO neutral.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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