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So will every seemingly casual moment of Ian Rickson’s long-game staging, from lighting (by Isabella Byrd) that often, weirdly, illuminates the audience, to Jackman’s manhandling of an actual lawn mower.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 May 2025
Players could hunt buffalo, talk to Swedes and slowly make their way across the Great Plains and Rockies with pixelated graphics and old-timey music rendered weirdly futuristic by the Apple II’s primitive music card.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
The partial answer, one that feels weirdly isolated from just about everything else in the show, is that the detention center has a drama program whose teacher (Bat-Chen Sabag) sees something extraordinary in him—the same thing that makes Zoro perceive Dean as superior and thus worth protecting.
—Judy Berman, Time, 2 May 2025
So that’s why, weirdly, my creative instinct was always to literature, because of the accessibility.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 May 2025
Players could hunt buffalo, talk to Swedes and slowly make their way across the Great Plains and Rockies with pixelated graphics and old-timey music rendered weirdly futuristic by the Apple II’s primitive music card.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
The partial answer, one that feels weirdly isolated from just about everything else in the show, is that the detention center has a drama program whose teacher (Bat-Chen Sabag) sees something extraordinary in him—the same thing that makes Zoro perceive Dean as superior and thus worth protecting.
—Judy Berman, Time, 2 May 2025
So that’s why, weirdly, my creative instinct was always to literature, because of the accessibility.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdly
oddly
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Flight attendants are aware of the trick and may flag oversized or oddly shaped pillows, especially on international flights or basic economy fares.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
20 May 2025
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Those expecting another Oldboy, his oddly stock 2013 redo of Park Chan-wook’s Oedipal nightmare, will be pleasantly surprised by how personal this feels.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2025
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdly. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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