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Recent Examples of peculiarly
But his mouth was open and drooped peculiarly to one side, and his skin was sucked into his skeleton like a vacuum storage bag.
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Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026
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
In the early twentieth century, Einstein formulated equations for the peculiarly relative flow of time, now an indispensable part of the workings of all GPS systems.
—Alan Lightman
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
So, Orange County in the late 1970s and early 1980s seems a peculiarly unlikely place to have a hardcore punk rock scene.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Aug. 2025
Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026
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
In the early twentieth century, Einstein formulated equations for the peculiarly relative flow of time, now an indispensable part of the workings of all GPS systems.
—Alan Lightman
september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
So, Orange County in the late 1970s and early 1980s seems a peculiarly unlikely place to have a hardcore punk rock scene.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peculiarly
Adverb
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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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Researchers found unusually high hantavirus levels in rodents in the Pacific Northwest, suggesting greater exposure risk in the surrounding agricultural communities.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2026
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The one oddity is that hydroelectric production has surged without a corresponding increase in capacity, likely due to unusually warm weather in the western US causing the snowpack to melt early.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2026
Adverb
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The researchers demonstrated switching at an energy scale of roughly four quadrillionths of a joule, an extraordinarily tiny amount of energy that is far below what is needed to power even a small LED light briefly.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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Musk did push for structures that would have given him control, and Altman and Brockman became extraordinarily wealthy from an organization built around the language of altruism.—
Anisha Sircar,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
Adverb
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Yet for those who can afford to buy a ticket, golf is weirdly accessible.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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So there’s this thing that’s uniting them weirdly through loss.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
5 May 2026
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“Peculiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peculiarly. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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