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Recent Examples of strangeness
For Ballantyne, the moment epitomized the strangeness of the whole situation — a sentiment echoed by fellow passengers.
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Francesca Street, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Fleming’s work is a hyperspecific, manic, digressive observational comedy buried inside a cloud of performance-art strangeness.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
But for the Bulls front office, there’s a purpose to the strangeness.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
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.
—Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
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Francesca Street, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Fleming’s work is a hyperspecific, manic, digressive observational comedy buried inside a cloud of performance-art strangeness.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
But for the Bulls front office, there’s a purpose to the strangeness.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
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.
—Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
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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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Despite this weirdness, however, and some mutual skepticism, Big Tech and the Catholic Church each has something to gain from the other.—
Elias Wachtel,
The Atlantic,
25 Apr. 2026
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Phish’s penchant for weirdness and surreal stuff wasn’t left behind for these shows, either (after all, a band equally influenced by Rush, the Grateful Dead, Talking Heads, and Frank Zappa wouldn’t likely be caged into anything resembling ordinary).—
Jeff Miller,
Rolling Stone,
20 Apr. 2026
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With charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent — to borrow RuPaul’s mantra (the lipsynch-for-your-lifeboats number is a highlight) — the comic ensemble makes the gags work by sheer will.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
13 Apr. 2026
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The biggest thing is to try to protect that level of uniqueness.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Apr. 2026
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In between, though, the Mets showed their unfamiliarity with running the bases.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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Others mocked the outlet’s apparent unfamiliarity with the logistics of covering Congress.—
Dominick Mastrangelo,
The Hill,
15 Apr. 2026
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Once a year, the editors of New York set out to make the day-to-day task of living in this city easier for our readers — both those who have been here since birth and those who are still discovering (and adjusting to) its peculiarities and price tags.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
16 Apr. 2026
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Reinsdorf noted the peculiarities of the prior hiring process, which took place in March 2020 in the early throes of the COVID-19 pandemic with a limited ability to hold meetings and communicate remotely.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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In Fiduccia’s perceptive reading, binaries such as abstraction and likeness, form and formlessness, seriality and singularity, take on dialectical tension and interrelation.—
Ara H. Merjian,
ARTnews.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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Song writes with an adept eye and ear, examining time and rendering the choral and communal, the singularity of human life.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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Providing more distinctiveness is Neville’s tagging along for the weekly dinner with the host (Edebiri in this case), Michaels and select cast members, which takes place early in the schedule and at the same Italian restaurant every week.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2026
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Doors opened; doors narrowed again when Jewish distinctiveness reasserted itself, whether through religious observance, Zionism, or simple refusal to disappear.—
Kenneth L. Marcus,
Boston Herald,
13 Apr. 2026
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Researchers evaluated and recorded the same 28 characteristics for each species based on preexisting data from universities and government agencies, Nunez-Mir said.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Although the gravity of a black hole is intense—that’s its defining characteristic—the force drops off rapidly with distance.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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