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Recent Examples of weirdly
Manchester City backup goalkeeper Stefan Ortega has left for Nottingham Forest, a sale worth a weirdly nominal £500,000 (that would hardly pay Erling Haaland for a week).
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
Roxana’s key role in the season, weirdly, is that moment.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
By the time Melania arrives at the Inaugural festivities, the film has given itself over to a series of rituals (the candlelight dinner, the Inaugural itself, the luncheon, the Starlight Ball), which feels weirdly fitting since the filmmaking itself is so ritualized.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
The first season also stood out for its weirdly short episode lengths.
—New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2026
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Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
Roxana’s key role in the season, weirdly, is that moment.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
By the time Melania arrives at the Inaugural festivities, the film has given itself over to a series of rituals (the candlelight dinner, the Inaugural itself, the luncheon, the Starlight Ball), which feels weirdly fitting since the filmmaking itself is so ritualized.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
The first season also stood out for its weirdly short episode lengths.
—New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdly
Adverb
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Inside, it’s filled with yellowing tiles and strangely, empty prescription medicine bottles.—
Grace Hwang Lynch,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Misunderstood and strangely beautiful creature?—
Lisa Rosen,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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
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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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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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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdly. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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