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Recent Examples of strangeness
The strangeness heightens as one of the staff members tries to staunch an incessant nosebleed mid-conversation and when Elisabeth launches into an almost 10-minute fit of laughter.
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Abigail Lee, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
Despite the strangeness of it all, something clicked.
—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
This was the norm — this kind of coldness, this kind of strangeness.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
But for all its delightful strangeness, Groundhog Day is also a rarity among American holidays.
—Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
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Abigail Lee, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
Despite the strangeness of it all, something clicked.
—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
This was the norm — this kind of coldness, this kind of strangeness.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
But for all its delightful strangeness, Groundhog Day is also a rarity among American holidays.
—Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
Noun
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Antoine’s peculiarities perhaps cut deepest, even seemingly superficial ones.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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There are echoes of the early days of thermodynamics, which began with humble questions about how machines work and ended up speaking to the arrow of time, the peculiarities of living matter, and the fate of the universe.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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And while the interests of international law look unlikely to be served over the next four days, the trip, by virtue of its singularity, acts as a reminder of the new international constraints under which Israel’s leader now operates.—
Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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For some equations with singularities — points where the answers turn into infinity — looking at the nearby behavior with complex numbers can sometimes provide insight.—
Kenneth Chang,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Titan shows all the characteristics of a planet – including rivers, lakes, clouds, rain and even a salty subsurface ocean.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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Rebecca’s wholehearted characteristics and attributes connect her to the Water sign Pisces, who takes on problems with others due to their absorbance and empathetic nature.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
11 May 2025
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The Ferguson oddities Players signed by the greatest manager of all time, for reasons few can fathom.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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The four-seater Porsche 911, also known as the 911 B17, never made it beyond this prototype, but still exists as an oddity and, potentially, a very valuable one.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
6 May 2025
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Ivy-as-Marilyn is an inconsiderate, amphetamine guzzling faux-intellectual whose devotion to the acting craft is presented as a vainglorious affectation.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The interaction between Briony and Jamie starts off amiably, with Jamie needling Briony for her posh affectations.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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The 22-year-old striker is experiencing a difficult second season at the club, yet has the raw attributes to be a good No 9.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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This sort of climate analysis—based on slow changes in animal teeth, as well as their mass and other attributes at a single site—has never been published in the scientific literature.—
Michael Ray Taylor,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 May 2025
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Powered by Adelaide, Forbes AI Psychological safety, defined by McKinsey as the absence of interpersonal fear, is often cited as a defining trait of high-performing, innovative teams.—
Cynthia Pong,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Wirtz is focused more on the micro, with delicate touches and deft flicks, compared to Szoboszlai’s macro traits of energy and power.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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