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Recent Examples of strangeness
On his second album, the Portland musician adds a little mystery to his sad-boy singer-songwriter persona, favoring abstract musings and adding subtle strangeness to otherwise tasteful arrangements.
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Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
And despite the strangeness hanging over their relationship, Agnes and Peter have a compelling back-and-forth.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
This is a book that takes on the utter strangeness of grief.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
Our group had lost each other in the night and the cacophony—atomized by the strangeness—but miraculously found each other again.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 21 Dec. 2025
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Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
And despite the strangeness hanging over their relationship, Agnes and Peter have a compelling back-and-forth.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
This is a book that takes on the utter strangeness of grief.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
Our group had lost each other in the night and the cacophony—atomized by the strangeness—but miraculously found each other again.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 21 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
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Roots are produced from the base of the bulb, but in an odd twist of botanical bizarreness, the roots are produced toward the end of the bloom time.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Sep. 2025
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The host’s pure masterstroke of Survivor weirdness, however, came not on the island but in the studio.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Mar. 2026
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All this weirdness gets ironed out in the company as big as GM.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
12 Mar. 2026
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In its brief, Microsoft also warned of significant costs for government suppliers to remove Anthropic software and that the uniqueness of Anthropic’s products may leave some with no alternatives.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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Personality is now a big part of what compels buyers to choose a home; agents increasingly hear buyers asking for character and uniqueness over recent design styles.—
Mary Grace Granados
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
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The inexperience and unfamiliarity of playing with one another started to become less of an issue.—
Dean Spiros,
Twin Cities,
5 Mar. 2026
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Sprint speed ranked in the 95th percentile of MLB players helped Smith mitigate early unfamiliarity with reads and reactions off the bat in right field.—
Matt Kawahara,
Houston Chronicle,
24 Feb. 2026
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The unexpectedly weird shows, though, their individual peculiarities can be fascinating.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2026
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The peculiarity of Ouédraogo’s seemingly straightforward and classical practice is to evoke distances, conjuring wide spaces between the images—which is to say, between the characters depicted in them—and to bring those spaces to life.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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Those outside of it appreciate the singularity of his collections—minimal, revealing, sharp—but have not yet become disciples.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
7 Mar. 2026
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The conquest of Mars and the achievement of the singularity are, like the nationalism resurgent across the globe, daydreams that offer a taste of that old comfort.—
Charles Finch,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
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For Glomski, that distinctiveness is the point.—
Peter Burke,
FOXNews.com,
15 Feb. 2026
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In the immediate future, Murray said, the Post would concentrate on areas that demonstrate authority, distinctiveness and impact, and resonate with readers, including politics, national affairs and security.—
David Bauder,
Fortune,
4 Feb. 2026
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Satellite analysis by the AP shows that the school, as well as other targets struck the same day, had characteristics visible from the air that could have identified them as civilian sites before they were struck.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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As Americans shifted their attention to both British enemies and Indian enemies, these propaganda campaigns became more strident and generated debates about racial characteristics.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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