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Recent Examples of weirdness
DiMarco is a perfect fit as the besotted but fragile boy-man groom while Jason Leigh interjects hazy weirdness while Levine, Wilbusch, Birney, Crome and Fraser keep our suspicions about them on high.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Other weirdness characterizes the city’s plan beginning with the decision to put a tourism agency, Choose Chicago, in charge.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Maglaque is a student of archival texts, often written by women, that challenge conventional secular and religious interpretations of early modern history and return to it an essential weirdness.
—Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026
Cultivating the band’s weirdness, the group claimed that Coffey and Nervosa were siblings.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
But the same energy, enthusiasm and weirdness has happily haunted his art from the ’80s to today.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
And beyond the jarring aesthetic of wearing all these devices, there’s also the weirdness of walking around with the ability to record people around you — sometimes passively.
—Brian Cheung, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026
The host’s pure masterstroke of Survivor weirdness, however, came not on the island but in the studio.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
All this weirdness gets ironed out in the company as big as GM.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Other weirdness characterizes the city’s plan beginning with the decision to put a tourism agency, Choose Chicago, in charge.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Maglaque is a student of archival texts, often written by women, that challenge conventional secular and religious interpretations of early modern history and return to it an essential weirdness.
—Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026
Cultivating the band’s weirdness, the group claimed that Coffey and Nervosa were siblings.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
But the same energy, enthusiasm and weirdness has happily haunted his art from the ’80s to today.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
And beyond the jarring aesthetic of wearing all these devices, there’s also the weirdness of walking around with the ability to record people around you — sometimes passively.
—Brian Cheung, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026
The host’s pure masterstroke of Survivor weirdness, however, came not on the island but in the studio.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
All this weirdness gets ironed out in the company as big as GM.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdness
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The friendship between these two witches is the core of this whole story, and the way that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande perform it is what made the first movie work, despite the all-surrounding kookiness of Wicked.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2025
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There is an ongoing scientific controversy over whether obese individuals with no metabolic abnormalities, such as diabetes, high cholesterol, or hypertension, should be treated as higher risk.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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The abnormality has also been linked to deaths in the National Football League and in other sports such as hockey and soccer.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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But this often requires accepting the fundamental irrationality of the wrapping-up process.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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The irrationality of politicians suddenly makes sense.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
24 Feb. 2026
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But there’s more to it than gleeful perversions of genre.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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This garish cavalcade of perversions, which just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, should have been shocking and transgressive; the pieces are certainly there.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
15 Feb. 2026
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On an album thoroughly steeped in neuroticism and personal dysfunction, that acceptance feels like freedom.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
Pitchfork,
23 Feb. 2026
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But psychological traits such as neuroticism, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression also increase risk.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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That person — a sunny, daffy, confection of trashy Southern ridiculousness — is just not a mean person.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2026
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Devoted fans will catch every clever nod, while newcomers can enjoy the romance, rivalry, and Regency ridiculousness without the multi-volume commitment.—
Cincinnati Enquirer,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Mar. 2026
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For one, prediction markets affect people similarly from a behavioral standpoint, according to gambling addiction researchers and advocacy groups such as the National Council on Problem Gambling.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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Written by Mescudi, Doe explores themes of addiction and survival through the lens of a man living on the streets of Hollywood who, over the course of 24 hours, drifts through a series of encounters that pull him in and out of the cycles of his compulsion.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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The school's practices allowed people to get massage therapy licenses without finishing the required training, according to TDLR.—
S.E. Jenkins,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Turner added that the conditions Kaiko was in were the direct result of backyard breeding practices that prioritize profit over animal welfare.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Weirdness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdness. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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