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Recent Examples of weirdly
A lot of what Annie has gone through has weirdly paralleled my own life.
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
Indiana’s defensive coordinator got weirdly testy in response to a compliment by former Bama QB Simpson on the Hoosiers’ Rose Bowl dominance.
—Jason Kirk, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
This version feels weirdly more human and more effective than the original.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
It's become now, weirdly, part of my identity.
—Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
Indiana’s defensive coordinator got weirdly testy in response to a compliment by former Bama QB Simpson on the Hoosiers’ Rose Bowl dominance.
—Jason Kirk, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
This version feels weirdly more human and more effective than the original.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
It's become now, weirdly, part of my identity.
—Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdly
Adverb
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Since the moon is also void for nearly the entire day, before entering Aries later this evening, the energy could feel strangely unsettled.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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And, strangely, both were onto something.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
Adverb
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The image is both comic and oddly fitting, encapsulating the strange coexistence of weight and surface that runs through both Spark’s fiction and Schiaparelli’s design.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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Given Juanito’s tragic death in a car accident years ago, the reference felt unnecessary and oddly timed.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
9 May 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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This could come as something of a shock to people who have been shivering under sweaters and blankets during an unusually chilly spring.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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But Le Corroller is definitely in charge here, orchestrating the squishy mayhem right up to the unusually bleak climax that fully delivers on the premise.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdly. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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