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Recent Examples of funnily
The 1929 landmark building has long attracted Hollywood writers and actors, and funnily enough, Rhimes’s unit once doubled as Olivia Pope’s apartment in early episodes of Scandal.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2026
In 2024, a team of volunteers and engineers banded together to 3D print a harness to help a nearly three-decade-old turtle named Charlotte living with the funnily named, but medically serious, bubble butt syndrome.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
But, funnily enough, losing to Halifax might have been the best thing that happened because Ben Tozer stood up in the dressing room and gave it to everyone.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Both have two, and all four books were published by Riverhead, and funnily enough, both earlier books (The Mothers, 2016 and Verge, 2020, respectively) were designed by Rachel Willey, while both later books (The Vanishing Half, 2020, and Thrust, 2022) were designed by Lauren Peters-Collaer.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Expect appearances from local brewers, live music, games and food – plus lots of funnily dressed dogs kicking back after their big show.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
That's why, funnily enough, a furniture store actually works really well for us because the floorplate facilitates interaction.
—Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
Ireland, funnily enough, does a lot of that.
—Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
All this means, funnily enough, that the first place that a program capable of using JPEG compression appeared was not MacOS or Windows, but OS/2—a fascinating-but-failed graphical operating system created by Pennebaker and Mitchell’s employer, IBM.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2026
In 2024, a team of volunteers and engineers banded together to 3D print a harness to help a nearly three-decade-old turtle named Charlotte living with the funnily named, but medically serious, bubble butt syndrome.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
But, funnily enough, losing to Halifax might have been the best thing that happened because Ben Tozer stood up in the dressing room and gave it to everyone.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Both have two, and all four books were published by Riverhead, and funnily enough, both earlier books (The Mothers, 2016 and Verge, 2020, respectively) were designed by Rachel Willey, while both later books (The Vanishing Half, 2020, and Thrust, 2022) were designed by Lauren Peters-Collaer.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
Expect appearances from local brewers, live music, games and food – plus lots of funnily dressed dogs kicking back after their big show.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
That's why, funnily enough, a furniture store actually works really well for us because the floorplate facilitates interaction.
—Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
Ireland, funnily enough, does a lot of that.
—Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
All this means, funnily enough, that the first place that a program capable of using JPEG compression appeared was not MacOS or Windows, but OS/2—a fascinating-but-failed graphical operating system created by Pennebaker and Mitchell’s employer, IBM.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funnily
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In the series finale, in which every character meets their demise, Keith owns his own security company but is strangely still physically moving cash around in an armored truck when he is gunned down in the year 2029.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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Scenes of the humanist Mann speaking earnestly to auditoriums full of people who likely do not hear him are strangely resonant with today.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
Adverb
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Yet both can break, rendering them oddly both permanent and fragile.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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But the Pathfinder oddly does not offer a navigation system.—
James Raia,
Mercury News,
18 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
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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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“Funnily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funnily. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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