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Recent Examples of weirdly
The film is weirdly slow and sleepy and at least 20 minutes too long.
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Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
The film is weirdly slow and sleepy, and at least 20 minutes too long.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Most of the roughly 200 episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger have the moralizing flavor of after-school specials, albeit weirdly violent ones.
—Chris Klimek, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
Unfettered praise is the real goal, and weirdly, Newsmax is typically a place to find it.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 23 Mar. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
The film is weirdly slow and sleepy, and at least 20 minutes too long.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Most of the roughly 200 episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger have the moralizing flavor of after-school specials, albeit weirdly violent ones.
—Chris Klimek, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
Unfettered praise is the real goal, and weirdly, Newsmax is typically a place to find it.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdly
Adverb
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The moons range from planet-size Titan to smaller oddities, some of which are strangely shaped like potatoes or ravioli.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2026
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But campuses across the country—places where, just two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad to protest Israel’s war against Hamas—are strangely silent.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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Some found humor—or even satisfaction—in the oddly precise fit.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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The plots are bizarre—and often oddly racist, homophobic, transphobic, or misogynist.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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But his mouth was open and drooped peculiarly to one side, and his skin was sucked into his skeleton like a vacuum storage bag.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Officials say the snowpack peaked unusually early this year, in late February.—
Brady Halbleib,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Biennials make this metabolism unusually visible.—
Manuela Moscoso,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdly. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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