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Recent Examples of strangeness
The sentences do not show themselves off, are not self-conscious of their strangeness.
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Book Marks
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
If the self-help cant of the title seems to glitch or stutter, the book’s contents shimmer with the same strangeness.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
While her mother is trying to protect her from social embarrassment, Sasha sees no shame in her brother’s strangeness.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
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.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
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Book Marks
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
If the self-help cant of the title seems to glitch or stutter, the book’s contents shimmer with the same strangeness.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
While her mother is trying to protect her from social embarrassment, Sasha sees no shame in her brother’s strangeness.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
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.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
Noun
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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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Zahn is a master at non-verbal incredulity, and Coach Hudson’s perplexed patience in the face of Chad’s weirdness is never not entertaining.—
Kristen Baldwin,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Sep. 2025
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Mia goes on a trip to investigate, digging up the place's bloody history and some supernatural weirdness along the way.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Every element including the format itself communicated the uniqueness of ZUTOMAYO.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
25 Sep. 2025
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Mercury was well aware of the uniqueness of his project.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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As Palace struggled at times in the face of Sunderland’s defensive shield, Pino was a shining light, but there were signs of the 22-year-old’s rawness and unfamiliarity with the way his new team play.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 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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Excuse the cynicism, but this is the sort of combination of touchy-feely button-pushing and self-conscious peculiarity that’s meant to seem significant and profound that will bring out your inner rom-com Grinch.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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Alongside Mignatti, architect Marco Lecchi coordinated construction, and is intimately familiar with the area and its peculiarities.—
Francesca Longoni,
Architectural Digest,
16 Sep. 2025
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Yudkowsky even believes nuclear war might be preferable to the singularity.—
Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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One quick line, in which an elderly woman recognizes Mark’s sport as one that was threatened with a legal ban, suggests both its controversy and its singularity, but the subject is dropped as casually as it’s mentioned.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There’s no spark of distinctiveness in any of these characters.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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However, because capital appropriates the powers of living labor to itself, the distinctiveness of the latter is deeply obscured.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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Early on, astronomers were able to determine with a high degree of certainty that the object is a comet, but work has continued to get a better idea of its size and phyisical characteristics.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Each house will be defined by a sign with certain characteristics that will map out your life.—
Lisa Stardust,
Vogue,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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