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Recent Examples of strangeness
Granted, my fear of the dark—and of dark water—never really left me, but the sheer strangeness of science calmed me.
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Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 30 Apr. 2025
Satan is a lover of strangeness and coincidence—of exposing the happiness of humans as a prelude to their misery, and sometimes their misery as a prelude to happiness.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
But season 2 was the show's perfect nexus between strangeness and brilliance.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
In the face of this workaday jangle of strangeness and complexity, paranoia starts to seem like a perfectly rational response.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
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Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 30 Apr. 2025
Satan is a lover of strangeness and coincidence—of exposing the happiness of humans as a prelude to their misery, and sometimes their misery as a prelude to happiness.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
But season 2 was the show's perfect nexus between strangeness and brilliance.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
In the face of this workaday jangle of strangeness and complexity, paranoia starts to seem like a perfectly rational response.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
Noun
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Stuff like how to read spins and backgrounds at various stadiums, including the peculiarities of cavernous Kauffman Stadium.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
5 June 2025
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Twain’s narrative boasts some—discrepancies is too magisterial a word … peculiarities, say.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2025
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Although some observers critique their varying quality, the lack of consensus emphasizes the singularity of each of these efforts.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2025
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In the first, the pattern in singularity; in the latter, the singularity that suggests the pattern.—
Nicholas Dames,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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Besides searching for the likes of methane and ammonia, the characteristics of the planet's atmosphere discernible to JWST could point to which formation model – core accretion or disk instability – is the correct one, or even whether a brand new formation model is needed.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 June 2025
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Key characteristics of individuals with big egos in the workplace include: Domineering behavior.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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But Beautiful offsets its delightful oddities with jibing pop traditionalism.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 June 2025
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Yet what’s strange and understandable at the same time is that if the oddities that took place at the various U.S. Opens (Winged Foot most notably) can be forgotten, what Arkush most seems to be saying is that even forgetting those, someone with Mickelson’s talent still should have won many more.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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From our review: Tessa Van den Broeck, a newcomer, plays Julie with zero affectation.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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No fussy affectations, just a deliberate tamping down of his more charismatic qualities.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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Maybe being great at 10 out of 10 things makes a team member an A-plus, but if someone just has 7 out of 10, then focus on enhancing those key attributes even more.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Blue has all the attributes needed to be a great rescue dog to the right home and family.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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The study found that, once again, this trait strongly predicted breadcrumbing, and was also associated with ghosting behaviors.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Compared with the other dragons in the original, which character designer Nico Marlet imagined with comically lopsided proportions — bulgy eyes, oversize heads, ungainly fangs — Toothless was an elegant mix of feline and canine traits, mapped onto a sleek black reptilian body.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 June 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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