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Recent Examples of weirdly
But weirdly, this E190 flight means more to me than those others.
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Guests arrived to the ceremony via ferry — a weirdly poetic parallel to the guest transportation for Connor's Succession season 4 wedding ceremony.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Early’s inspirations for the film run the gamut, and the star and filmmaker has been open about wanting to blend everything from Sirkian melodramas to old-school TV movies of the week to plunge us into his very specific, very funny, and often weirdly moving mindset.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Guests arrived to the ceremony via ferry — a weirdly poetic parallel to the guest transportation for Connor's Succession season 4 wedding ceremony.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Early’s inspirations for the film run the gamut, and the star and filmmaker has been open about wanting to blend everything from Sirkian melodramas to old-school TV movies of the week to plunge us into his very specific, very funny, and often weirdly moving mindset.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdly
Adverb
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What feels strangely compelling is how ZUTOMAYO’s music is composed of a combination of extremely complex elements.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
25 Sep. 2025
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Enter Black creators, who are at the forefront of AI’s inevitable intrigue, instinctively finding home in the strangely familiar newness of technological development.—
Essence,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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In his oddly understated way, David Byrne is one of the most electrifying musicians of the last 50 years.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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National parks will be open, oddly.—
Ruth Umoh,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In the early twentieth century, Einstein formulated equations for the peculiarly relative flow of time, now an indispensable part of the workings of all GPS systems.—
Alan Lightman
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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So, Orange County in the late 1970s and early 1980s seems a peculiarly unlikely place to have a hardcore punk rock scene.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Aug. 2025
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Also, like Johnson, the station chief had an unusually friendly relationship with Bukele.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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During my recent visit, though, the situation felt unusually tenuous.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdly. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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