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Recent Examples of strangely
Inside, it’s filled with yellowing tiles and strangely, empty prescription medicine bottles.
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Grace Hwang Lynch, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
Misunderstood and strangely beautiful creature?
—Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
When such a place is hollowed out, the loss lands like a death — sudden, disorienting and strangely private, because grief for culture is often dismissed as indulgent.
—Helmut Paul, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
Emery’s side appeared strangely leggy, as if having a week between games caused more lethargy than looking well-rested.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
At Art Basel’s first Middle East edition in Doha, the usual choreography of an art fair felt strangely absent.
—Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 9 Feb. 2026
In December, Carolina Migrant Network attorney Becca O’Neill told The Charlotte Observer that people inside are also being woken up to eat at strangely early hours and receiving subpar medical care.
—Ryan Oehrli
updated February 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2026
Milk is a strangely polarizing topic.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2026
But, no, it was authored under the direction of a man who, strangely enough, made his fortune borrowing money on Wall Street.
—Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
Grace Hwang Lynch, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
Misunderstood and strangely beautiful creature?
—Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
When such a place is hollowed out, the loss lands like a death — sudden, disorienting and strangely private, because grief for culture is often dismissed as indulgent.
—Helmut Paul, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
Emery’s side appeared strangely leggy, as if having a week between games caused more lethargy than looking well-rested.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
At Art Basel’s first Middle East edition in Doha, the usual choreography of an art fair felt strangely absent.
—Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 9 Feb. 2026
In December, Carolina Migrant Network attorney Becca O’Neill told The Charlotte Observer that people inside are also being woken up to eat at strangely early hours and receiving subpar medical care.
—Ryan Oehrli
updated February 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2026
Milk is a strangely polarizing topic.
—Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2026
But, no, it was authored under the direction of a man who, strangely enough, made his fortune borrowing money on Wall Street.
—Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
Adverb
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Being told you sound like AI, then, can feel oddly dehumanizing.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
9 Feb. 2026
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Gates bought the Xanadu land in 1988 for just $2 million—then proceeded to pour about $63 million into the property, which has 24 bathrooms, but oddly just seven bedrooms.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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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
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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
Adverb
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But this performance’s wealth of gyration seemed subtly throwback-y and weirdly wholesome.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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This has, weirdly, resulted in far-right communities being one of the few spaces where maternal labor is explicitly celebrated, rather than dismissed or ignored.—
Ej Dickson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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After an unusually warm and dry stretch, soggy weather could be returning to Phoenix.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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What Comes Next The scale of this expedition — spanning the full length of Argentina’s continental margin — makes its data set unusually comprehensive.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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