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Recent Examples of strangely
February 19 – March 20 Practical choices can feel strangely comforting now.
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Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
Cherry had gone out for the first time since Tom left to do something just for herself—she’d gone out by herself for maybe the first time ever—and this strangely perfect night was here waiting for her.
—Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Others feel eager, flattering or strangely cold.
—Tamilla Triantoro, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
Weeks would pass, and, strangely, despite his ordeal, Schiller did not report it to police.
—Troy Roberts, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
The animals are comporting themselves even more strangely than usual right now.
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
The moons range from planet-size Titan to smaller oddities, some of which are strangely shaped like potatoes or ravioli.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
But campuses across the country—places where, just two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad to protest Israel’s war against Hamas—are strangely silent.
—Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
Cherry had gone out for the first time since Tom left to do something just for herself—she’d gone out by herself for maybe the first time ever—and this strangely perfect night was here waiting for her.
—Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Others feel eager, flattering or strangely cold.
—Tamilla Triantoro, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
Weeks would pass, and, strangely, despite his ordeal, Schiller did not report it to police.
—Troy Roberts, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
The animals are comporting themselves even more strangely than usual right now.
—Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
The moons range from planet-size Titan to smaller oddities, some of which are strangely shaped like potatoes or ravioli.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
But campuses across the country—places where, just two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad to protest Israel’s war against Hamas—are strangely silent.
—Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
Adverb
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Through all these threads, The Audacity throws itself headlong at some of tech’s biggest hot-button topics, including privacy, AI and, in an oddly halfhearted subplot involving JoAnne’s son, Everett Bliunck’s Orson, the manosphere, with an eye as cold as its characters.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
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Evan graduated from Georgia State University, but oddly is a Georgia fan.—
Staff Writter,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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But his mouth was open and drooped peculiarly to one side, and his skin was sucked into his skeleton like a vacuum storage bag.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Her squid-ink flavor profile was one note, and her monkfish had a weirdly wet and spongy texture that Rhoda defends but that none of the judges can figure out.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2026
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Still annoyed, weirdly offended, and slightly spiraling.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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This year, after unusually heavy rains in February, Carrizo Plain erupted in a dramatic bloom in March, attracting several hundred visitors per day.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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He is measured by temperament, analytical by training (Princeton, Harvard, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey), and unusually candid about what keeps him up at night.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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