strangely

Definition of strangelynext

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Recent Examples of strangely These incongruous people end up dying in the same dragon fire and looking the same way in a strangely intimate sort of pose. Matt Minton, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026 No one has done more to explain Silicon Valley’s founding mythology—or to show how the industry has rendered the material consequences of its power strangely invisible. Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026 The divide between critics score and audience score is a strangely wide split. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Banks nearly had another one on Winston in the final 11-on-11 situational period, but the ball clanged off his hands near the goal line … Dart strangely lowered his shoulder on a QB run to the right on one play and made some contact with defenders. Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026 Watching the slow, unthinking undulations of Technicolor bells trailing lengthy tentacles like slo-mo ribbon dancers is strangely soothing. Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026 But none of these writers — who, even more strangely, don’t appear to have actually bylined any of the site’s content — appear to exist beyond Le Ravi‘s site. Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 30 July 2026 Meanwhile, people on the street are just fascinated by the strangely naked corner. ABC News, 29 July 2026 This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
Adverb
  • The docuseries is inspired by and draws from the 2008 nonfiction book, The Lizard King, by Bryan Christy (oddly, not about The Doors frontman, Jim Morrison).
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • My doctor, a pregnant Asian woman also in her 40s, looked oddly like a teenager carrying her own baby to term.
    Nhi Mundy, Allure, 6 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Photography, then, is an expression of our peculiarly cruel way of seeing.
    Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Building a wall may even be its own kind of narrative project—a peculiarly linear one.
    Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026
Adverb
  • Goldberg, his fellow Canadian, co-directed with him the weirdly uneven apocalyptic comedy bravely titled This Is the End, which proved to be neither a hit nor the end.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 30 July 2026
  • In late 2024, X weirdly ended up withdrawing its application for a money transmitter license in the state.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026
Adverb
  • Over the next 710 days, Earth will experience three total solar eclipses visible from Europe, Africa and Australia, giving travelers an unusually accessible chance to witness one of nature’s rarest spectacles.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • If both deals materialize, Nigeria could be heading for an unusually consequential moment in public ownership and domestic capital formation.
    Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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