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Huffman’s company, which has the weirdly generic name of The New Theatre Project, has made a name for itself by creating novel shows inside a working factory on Chicago’s North Side.
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
The material is weirdly shiny though, which might be a turnoff.
—Maggie Slepian, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
Carr’s jibe struck me as weirdly TV-centric, in a very Trumpian sense.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
Last week, a joint deal between the overseas owners and, weirdly, the federal government all but sealed its fate.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 25 Feb. 2026
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
The material is weirdly shiny though, which might be a turnoff.
—Maggie Slepian, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
Carr’s jibe struck me as weirdly TV-centric, in a very Trumpian sense.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
Last week, a joint deal between the overseas owners and, weirdly, the federal government all but sealed its fate.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 25 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdly
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There’s something about the architectural scale of Los Angeles Chinatown that has always struck me as somewhere between convincingly authentic and strangely artificial.—
Xuan Juliana Wang,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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And the title track features what sounds like a bouzouki riff, although it is let down by strangely disposable lyrics on what might be the least enigmatic song Morrissey has ever sung.—
Ben Cardew,
Pitchfork,
10 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Evan graduated from Georgia State University, but oddly is a Georgia fan.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
8 Mar. 2026
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The highways are long and mostly straight, giving you ample space to hit top speed in something like a Saleen S7 LM—an oddly niche choice for this gameplay snippet.—
Adam Ismail,
The Drive,
5 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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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
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Facing a peculiarly hostile administration in Washington, Pretoria has ample reason to pursue greater intra-BRICS cooperation—not out of ideological affinity with its members but out of the strategic necessity to protect itself against an erratic and punitive United States.—
OLIVER STUENKEL,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Nov. 2025
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Attacks on Gulf states continued Friday with Saudi Arabia's defense ministry saying its air defenses downed more than three dozen drones headed toward the kingdom's Eastern Province over the span of a few hours, marking an unusually large barrage.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Mar. 2026
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My younger daughter, who was at a friend’s house when this all went down, had an unusually hard time going to bed.—
Nicole Frehsee Mazur,
Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdly. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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