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Recent Examples of strangeness
In his book, Sultan wrote on the strangeness of the Valley’s homes temporarily annexed by adult entertainment, as if families had abandoned them suddenly overnight.
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
The show’s monsters can be startlingly intense, in fact, but none of them matches the strangeness of Steve Buscemi, as Nevermore’s new headmaster, dancing to Bruce Springsteen.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Heightening the strangeness is the fact that it’s shot in the style of Iranian meta cinema (think Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi), and the mostly Iranian cast speaks Farsi mixed with some French, as Rankin does himself.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 21 July 2025
The Ocho-fest kicks off Friday with a trifecta of strangeness.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 July 2025
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
The show’s monsters can be startlingly intense, in fact, but none of them matches the strangeness of Steve Buscemi, as Nevermore’s new headmaster, dancing to Bruce Springsteen.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Heightening the strangeness is the fact that it’s shot in the style of Iranian meta cinema (think Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi), and the mostly Iranian cast speaks Farsi mixed with some French, as Rankin does himself.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 21 July 2025
The Ocho-fest kicks off Friday with a trifecta of strangeness.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 July 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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Marian treated the situation appropriately and maturely, despite LTW's weirdness throughout the season.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Their weirdness was intentional.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Aug. 2025
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But for now, the best approach for sellers is to understand what buyers actually need, evaluate the quality and uniqueness of their own data, and align internal governance and analytics capabilities to support those needs.—
Seth Joseph,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Praise be, there are fiction writers who can capture the bodies and souls of completely normal individuals, their uniqueness, charms, highs and lows.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
31 Aug. 2025
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But two weeks before, McMahon exposed her unfamiliarity with the technology after calling it A1, as in the steak sauce, while speaking on a panel about education innovation.—
Emily Forlini,
PC Magazine,
26 Aug. 2025
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Quantum computers, which harness the peculiarities of quantum physics for gains in speed and computing ability over classical machines, may one day revolutionize technology.—
Ananya Palivela,
Scientific American,
30 Aug. 2025
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Beyond that technical stuff there is the peculiarity of what happens in the poem.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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This gave rise to decisions by a few airlines, such as Allegiant, to offer low-fare, low frequency nonstop flights from approximately a dozen small and mid-size rural communities to take advantage of the singularity of the Las Vegas destination.—
Michael Boyd,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Nobody else in the episode dresses like Hart; his costume clearly establishes his singularity, which reveals its full colors later in the series.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
12 Aug. 2025
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Mastantuono, 18, has the characteristics to contribute from a deeper position, but his signing was intended for more attacking areas, as is being seen.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Changeability is the unique characteristic of women.—
Clifford Coonan,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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Inside the museum, visitors can climb into a snake pit, tour a collection of global oddities and attend expert presentations in the building's historic courtroom, per the event website.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Obviously, finding additional species from earlier in this group's history would help clarify just how much of an oddity Spicomellus was and could give us an improved picture of the trajectory of evolution of this group's distinctive features.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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