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Recent Examples of strangeness
These scenarios' rapid-fire strangeness recalls WarioWare.
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Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
11 June 2026
The strangeness of the play aside, the result was ultimately a sixth runner thrown out at home plate since May 19.
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Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
4 June 2026
As the lone head coach in this lineup, Splitter is notable because of the strangeness of his current situation.
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Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
His son, sensing the hour, the day, and the overall strangeness of a work call at that hour, knew something was up.
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Sam Blum,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for strangeness
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
11 June 2026
The strangeness of the play aside, the result was ultimately a sixth runner thrown out at home plate since May 19.
—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
4 June 2026
As the lone head coach in this lineup, Splitter is notable because of the strangeness of his current situation.
—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
His son, sensing the hour, the day, and the overall strangeness of a work call at that hour, knew something was up.
—
Sam Blum,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for strangeness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
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The bizarreness didn’t stop there.
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Roots are produced from the base of the bulb, but in an odd twist of botanical bizarreness, the roots are produced toward the end of the bloom time.
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In the pool bath, a Scott Zaragoza tondo of Jeff as a dapper explorer confronting a gargantuan Venus flytrap strikes a pitch-perfect note of weirdness.
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The weirdness around a 2024 neck injury that cost Chicago Cubs right-hander Ben Brown the final 3½ months of the season has gained unexpected clarity two years later.
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Even a short period can act as an emotional and mental buffer, allowing your brain to re-adjust from the excitement and unfamiliarity of the road back to a standard, daily schedule.
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Perhaps the most difficult part of assimilating into a new community is embracing the unfamiliarity.
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Love is the capacity to hold difference without fragmentation, to bring parts into relationship without erasing their uniqueness and to align intelligence with constructive becoming.
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An argument if not for the uniqueness of American as a language, then at least for the literary vision of the people who speak in English within the borders of that new nation.
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If the job of a debut album is to introduce an artist to the world, while a sophomore album reinforces their reputation, then a third album offers a channel for artists to expand beyond the familiar tricks and peculiarities that shot them to fame in the first place.
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For thousands of years, scholars have investigated the peculiarities of irrational numbers.
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The post sparked much debate about whether a pause was possible given the financial incentives, whether RSI would finally produce some version of the AGI singularity or utopia, and whether RSI was even possible at all.
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Expanding on the character designs, Hirota underlined the quirky looks and the singularity of his artistic direction, directly inspired by child’s play and faulty craft.
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For these students, the expanding suite of standard sports offerings—including baseball, football, cheerleading and basketball—enliven the school community and add to its distinctiveness in the state’s growing microschool landscape.
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Cheuk urged directors to lean into their creative distinctiveness.
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Three months later, the Supreme Court voted to allow immigration agents to stop people based on racial or ethnic characteristics while still-ongoing litigation against it proceeded.
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For example, the experienced representative knew from past cases that when the customer had three particular characteristics, the usual answer would be wrong.
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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