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noun

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Recent Examples of weirdo
Adjective
The same goes for Glick’s Bell, a character who’s handed as many quirks as Gilmore Girls’s town weirdo Kirk in a way that can be implausibly strained. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025 At Comic Con, a normie named Dwayne (Ansley Melham) with striking blue eyes—notable, because Betty’s seeing in color for the first time—shrugs her off as a weirdo cosplayer. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
There’s a bunch of weirdos in a building wearing tutus and standing on their tippy toes. Zoe G. Phillips, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025 Though never a commercial success, the LP made its way into the hands of oddball punks and art-rock weirdos in the Midwest, intriguing many with its aloof approach to merging rock, punk, new-wave, and experimental prog. Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for weirdo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdo
Adjective
  • Sometimes your audio is all screwed up and echoing, there are weird pauses everywhere, and nothing interesting gets said.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • People talk about uncanny valley in terms of the look of these robots – there’s kind of a weird uncanny valley thing going on as well with AI artwork.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • American eccentrics like Walters long have provided material for satirists across the pond.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
  • There are dozens upon dozens of memorable eccentrics, delusional antiheroes, blustery authority figures, sad sacks, screw-ups and all-too-lovable schmucks that populate the 12 feature films and handful of shorts directed by Wes Anderson.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • While most players at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship are battling the Texas heat, slow play, and a demanding Fields Ranch East layout, Leona Maguire is dealing with something far more bizarre—tick bites!
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
  • The Myth Of More A Boston University professor turned the business world on its head back in 2015 by exposing a bizarre truth about productivity in the workplace.
    Drew Gerber, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Our challenge is to ensure each generation has the opportunity to engage with our stories, characters and life lessons.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 June 2025
  • Early on, he was often cast in Latino character roles on shows like HBO’s The Wire and Fox’s Gang Related.
    Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • The night before the baby junco landed in the research team’s net, a strange, shifting light filtered through the forest, not far from where the Long Trail, Vermont’s end-to-end hiking route, traverses the Mount Mansfield ridgeline.
    Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • But one of the strangest well wishes came not from a person, but a 1,400-foot-tall building.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • McGrath's older brother and two of her younger sisters described her as funny, sarcastic, full of life and so caring that the homeless in her neighborhood greeted her by name.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • Much like his character, Boyce is mild-mannered, kind and effortlessly funny.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Personal journey: Arriving in Miami from Cuba as a teenager, Arnaz initially worked odd jobs before reinventing himself as a musician, leading to a successful career that included collaborations with notable band leaders and performances in New York and Miami Beach.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 June 2025
  • In the video, Boone is in debt $10 million to his record label and has to raise enough cash to pay them back doing odd jobs.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • That’s curious since many laptop users don’t need those accessories.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The timing of the decision seemed curious to fans given that Alvarez went 2-for-5 with a home run in Saturday’s win.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 22 June 2025

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