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Recent Examples of strangely
Thus, Last Rites tries a new trick, with the doll growing in size and chasing Judy down a hallway, in a sequence that is strangely reminiscent of Five Nights At Freddy's.
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The effect is kaleidoscopic yet strangely calm.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
The result is a society that feels both rule-bound and misruled, saturated with laws and yet strangely lawless.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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
Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The effect is kaleidoscopic yet strangely calm.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
The result is a society that feels both rule-bound and misruled, saturated with laws and yet strangely lawless.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
Adverb
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The person to consult here, oddly enough, is Karl Marx.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Walker, oddly enough, has failed to protect leads in four of those seven instances, including tonight.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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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The effect was disastrous, my hair crimped weirdly, with sections shooting out in different directions like the discordant notes of an orchestra tuning up.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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After NewSky+ Max, the climate cascaded again, our weird weather rapidly growing more weirdly weathery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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By adding a new molecule— borrowed from skin care—to their Infiniment Coty Paris fragrance collection, perfumes achieve the unusually long wear time of 30 hours, something none of us or our industry judges have ever seen or smelled before.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Keep those air conditioners humming, because this week is kicking off with some unusually hot weather.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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