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Recent Examples of strangeness
To compound the strangeness of the disorder, THC and other cannabinoids in the marijuana plant have been used for pain relief — paradoxically relieving nausea and vomiting in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
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Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
The group has often gotten its kicks from bowling listeners over with the vastness and strangeness of its requisite parts; this wily two-drummer situation can take the shape of a majestic rock band or a coterie of techno-organic aliens.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
This approach reduces the perceptual gap between humans and robots and minimizes the sense of strangeness that typically accompanies humanoids.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
This type of bizarre wording is inherently quotable, but in The Chair Company, such Robinson-isms also help underline the strangeness of casual communication.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2025
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Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
The group has often gotten its kicks from bowling listeners over with the vastness and strangeness of its requisite parts; this wily two-drummer situation can take the shape of a majestic rock band or a coterie of techno-organic aliens.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
This approach reduces the perceptual gap between humans and robots and minimizes the sense of strangeness that typically accompanies humanoids.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
This type of bizarre wording is inherently quotable, but in The Chair Company, such Robinson-isms also help underline the strangeness of casual communication.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 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 weirdness was the awareness that time and life just keep going.—
Gwen Faulkenberry,
Arkansas Online,
8 Jan. 2026
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Calgary isn’t the only team that can point to some draft weirdness.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Vintage and thrifted decor can bring intrigue and uniqueness to a bathroom’s design.—
Melissa Epifano,
The Spruce,
4 Jan. 2026
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While bright, white, and neutral living rooms have become the norm recently, darker and moodier living rooms are absolutely stunning and add an element of uniqueness to your home.—
Zoe Gowen,
Southern Living,
29 Dec. 2025
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The challenge is not only unfamiliarity.—
Kristin Olson,
Fortune,
19 Dec. 2025
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Meanwhile, public acceptance remains limited, held back by unfamiliarity and lingering safety concerns.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Dec. 2025
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Caillaux, by the way, is spelled C-A-I-L-L-A-U-X for those unfamiliar with the peculiarities of French pronunciation.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
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One senses that there may have been more to the woman’s silence than awestruck agreement, but Bergler cheerfully adds her to his portfolio of case studies, in which patients’ sartorial peculiarities are unfailingly traced to episodes from their pasts.—
Leslie Jamison,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Crucially, none of these new singularity candidates has been proved.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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Helping disabled people regain autonomy, building a device for consumers to play video games, or mitigating the singularity, a theoretical future in which artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence?—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
5 Jan. 2026
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As to the non-final action, one problem for the A’s is that the marks fail to show enough distinctiveness.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Judean culture had been transformed by Greek influence for centuries, but Antiochus attempted to quash Judean religious distinctiveness altogether.—
Joshua Shanes,
The Conversation,
11 Dec. 2025
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But there are other factors that needled their way into the evolutionary development of dormancy characteristics.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
9 Jan. 2026
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There’s no single definition in our modern times, but experts generally agree on a few characteristics.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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