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Recent Examples of oddly
The leathery, oddly jacked old men who make their gender hangups everyone else’s problem.
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
The single thread throughout this herky-jerky tale is, oddly enough, the novels of Charles Dickens, taught by James’ grandfather, absorbed by James and quoted endlessly by Irving.
—The Know, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
Goldman then got his own package, one that had been oddly tampered with, and got a juicy callback in the film.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
But oddly enough, since the Rangers lost Artemi Panarin, Lafrenière has picked up the scoring pace.
—Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
The single thread throughout this herky-jerky tale is, oddly enough, the novels of Charles Dickens, taught by James’ grandfather, absorbed by James and quoted endlessly by Irving.
—The Know, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
Goldman then got his own package, one that had been oddly tampered with, and got a juicy callback in the film.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
But oddly enough, since the Rangers lost Artemi Panarin, Lafrenière has picked up the scoring pace.
—Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
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These unprecedented developments deserve attention at any time, but arguably especially at the present, strangely uncertain time in history.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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His face—framed by white hair, crisscrossed by age lines, and rendered strangely magnetic by unusually small, ice-blue eyes—has become the face of psychiatric euthanasia in the Netherlands.—
Charles Lane,
The Atlantic,
15 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
Adverb
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The music offers a weirdly endearing portrait of fame in Estonia.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
20 Mar. 2026
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All of these things are weirdly parallel tracks.—
Jack Denton,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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An unusually strong high pressure system in the middle to upper levels of the atmosphere has been crawling across the southwestern United States in the past day or so, forecasters said.—
Roberto Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Mar. 2026
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An unusually strong and sprawling heat dome is the catalyst for the heat, but the magnitude is undoubtedly being worsened by planet-warming pollution.—
Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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