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Recent Examples of weirdness
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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Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
1 July 2026
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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Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2026
No issues, other than your typical public transit weirdness.
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Aj Willingham,
AJC.com,
23 June 2026
Add rugged and reliable character actors Nick Offerman (Margo’s Got Money Troubles) and Keith David (The Lowdown), Daniel Radcliffe’s endlessly game Reggie Dinkins weirdness and another season of droll excellence from Abbott Elementary star Tyler James Williams.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
Atlanta wasn’t a horror comedy, at least most of the time, but its stylish weirdness and ability to create its own reality led Dippold to seek Murai out for the series.
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
But statistics fail to convey the humanity of yard sales—the caprice, whimsy, and high spirits, as well as the cunning, weirdness, and heartbreak, that charge and thicken the air when two people agree to perform an off-the-books monetary transaction.
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Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
From a castle built by a Sherlock Holmes actor in Connecticut to lava fields in Idaho that helped train astronauts, these destinations showcase the beauty, ingenuity and delightful weirdness that make the United States unique.
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Staff,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
There would have been a weirdness to it.
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Derek Lawrence,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 June 2026
Mayer Rus,
Architectural Digest,
1 July 2026
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.
—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2026
No issues, other than your typical public transit weirdness.
—
Aj Willingham,
AJC.com,
23 June 2026
Add rugged and reliable character actors Nick Offerman (Margo’s Got Money Troubles) and Keith David (The Lowdown), Daniel Radcliffe’s endlessly game Reggie Dinkins weirdness and another season of droll excellence from Abbott Elementary star Tyler James Williams.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
Atlanta wasn’t a horror comedy, at least most of the time, but its stylish weirdness and ability to create its own reality led Dippold to seek Murai out for the series.
—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
But statistics fail to convey the humanity of yard sales—the caprice, whimsy, and high spirits, as well as the cunning, weirdness, and heartbreak, that charge and thicken the air when two people agree to perform an off-the-books monetary transaction.
—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
From a castle built by a Sherlock Holmes actor in Connecticut to lava fields in Idaho that helped train astronauts, these destinations showcase the beauty, ingenuity and delightful weirdness that make the United States unique.
—
Staff,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
There would have been a weirdness to it.
—
Derek Lawrence,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdness
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The beloved British artist David Hockney, who died last week at the age of 88, is celebrated for his vibrant paintings, his innovative techniques, and his joyful kookiness.
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Often, though, the band drops the hauteur to reveal a surprising kind of kookiness.
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Interestingly, the development could lead to precision for delicate industrial manufacturing, gives advanced prosthetics a richer sense of touch, and allow surgical systems to instantly detect fine tissue abnormalities through visual color cues.
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Kesseli and the team investigated three possible reasons for this abnormality.
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Moreover, experts should introduce deliberate irrationality to disrupt the model’s predictive path.
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Viral memes and TikTok trends play up women’s purportedly excessive spike in libido during ovulation and dramatic irrationality during menstruation and the luteal phase (the 14 days or so between ovulation and menstruation).
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More broadly, this same chain of logic turns the Voting Rights Act into a zombie law, a perversion of its intended purpose that now mostly protects white Americans from any attempts to break their disproportionate control of voting machinery.
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The Fair Districts law is a partisan perversion walking around in a phony non-partisan trenchcoat.
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If the assassination made the President a Christlike figure, his forbearance in the face of a wife’s unreasonableness provides him with an extra measure of purity.
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If the assassination made the President a Christlike figure, his forbearance in the face of a wife’s unreasonableness provides him with an extra measure of purity.
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The highest scorers in neuroticism are most likely to report skepticism toward AI, citing concerns about job security, accuracy and the unintended consequences of quick adoption.
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These dimensions, called the Big Five personality traits, include things like extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, and neuroticism.
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Foreigners are visiting the United States, having fun, finding joy in the ridiculousness of American abundance and telling the internet about it.
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That was the best type of ridiculousness that I’ve been involved in.
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Cherokee leaders frame the project as an existential response to surging opioid deaths in rural communities, aiming to protect language and future generations from addiction’s toll.
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The movie serves both as a farewell to the franchise, and a reminder of how years of addiction, feuds and legal battles pushed Margera — who had second-billing for the first three films — to the sidelines.
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“Weirdness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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