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as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
always has a somewhat weird opinion of what's happening in the news
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as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
weird sounds from the woods just beyond our campsite
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as in magical
having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers
a self-styled, contemporary witch, she sells herbal mixtures that she claims are weird potions
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as in unusual
noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced
a weird little plant that we found growing in the garden
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Recent Examples of weird
His inept Cabinet ignores, and actually encourages, his very weird and embarrassing meandering.
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Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Kurstin makes things smoother, shinier, and less weird than Fly Lo might — not necessarily a bad thing.
—Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
Brian Williams was the first person to send me that, so that was kind of weird.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
Okay; there’s a very weird future-of-work moment where everybody was, like, a future-of-work thought leader in 2022.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
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Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Kurstin makes things smoother, shinier, and less weird than Fly Lo might — not necessarily a bad thing.
—Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
Brian Williams was the first person to send me that, so that was kind of weird.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
Okay; there’s a very weird future-of-work moment where everybody was, like, a future-of-work thought leader in 2022.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weird
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The troubled production resulted in a bizarre cyberpunk schlock-flick that felt far removed from what most fans understood Mario to be.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2026
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Since the border is not straight but snakes along old county lines, some of the journey was bizarre.—
Colm Tóibín,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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But as the game began to wind down, there was only that familiar, eerie silence that settles over a football stadium as the UConn men, who have become a sort of grim reaper at these Final Fours, ran out the clock.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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The onboard computer, voiced with eerie calm by Douglas Rain, manages the Discovery One mission to Jupiter.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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Life slows down here in the most magical of ways.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Apr. 2026
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The original series ran on Disney Channel from 2007 to 2012, following the Russo family as its three siblings navigated the challenges of adolescence while mastering their magical abilities.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2026
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When a series of tragic failures at New Era Community Health Center left scores of the county’s weakest, poorest and most erratic residents in danger, Florida health inspectors took the unusual step of threatening to shut down the home.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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Many of Barbosa’s followers know him for his unusual feats like holding the Guinness World Record for the fastest visits to every CTA station or sprinting through the United Center during a Bulls game.—
Audrey Pachuta,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
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Some 18 months ago, Mack said, the Royals launched a deep dive after Picollo broached the possibility of exploring strange new worlds.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
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But rather than avoiding strange quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement, Bennett and Brassard embraced them.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
31 Mar. 2026
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An echo of these matches lies in Human Mask (2014), a haunting video work by Pierre Huyghe, set in Fukushima after the destruction wrought by the tsunami and then the breakdown of the nuclear reactor.—
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei,
ARTnews.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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The final scene is haunting, even to me, someone who has known Hood for years now.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
3 Apr. 2026
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Now, though, with the widespread circulation of magic manuals, grimoires, and related compendia—with the recording, on paper, of words, spells, histories, stories—witchcraft has taken an irreversible step into the exoteric realm.—
Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Avs, by winning this game in regulation, reduced their magic number to win the Central Division and the top seed in the Western Conference to two points earned or two lost by the Stars.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
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There’s a funny reason why the pain flares in your upper face and forehead, a bit of a distance from the area responsible for the cold.—
Julia Daye,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
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As funny as her life seems, like everyone's, serious moments pepper the comedy.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Weird.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weird. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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