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Recent Examples of oddly
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, who has feasted against the Flyers in his career, was oddly quiet for a second straight game.
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Josh Yohe, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
With the moon void in your fourth house of home and family, emotions can feel oddly untethered or nostalgic.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
So somewhat oddly in front of the backdrop of the Bucks’ practice facility, there sat Antetokounmpo for what at times felt like a Heat sales pitch.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
This, oddly enough, seems to be the thing that ultimately changes Walt’s mind.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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Josh Yohe, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
With the moon void in your fourth house of home and family, emotions can feel oddly untethered or nostalgic.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
So somewhat oddly in front of the backdrop of the Bucks’ practice facility, there sat Antetokounmpo for what at times felt like a Heat sales pitch.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
This, oddly enough, seems to be the thing that ultimately changes Walt’s mind.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
Adverb
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This is both a fault but, strangely, is also through design.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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The night before, Nick Reiner -- who had been living on his parents' property -- got into an argument with Rob Reiner at a holiday party and was seen acting strangely, sources told ABC News.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2026
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But his mouth was open and drooped peculiarly to one side, and his skin was sucked into his skeleton like a vacuum storage bag.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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One mystery that the observations confirmed but unfortunately did not solve concerns Uranus’s peculiarly plummeting temperature.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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A lot of what Annie has gone through has weirdly paralleled my own life.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2026
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This version feels weirdly more human and more effective than the original.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Tatum and Brown provided the other three in an unusually active first quarter for Boston’s superstar duo.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
25 Apr. 2026
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The turtles’ unusually long lifespan of up to 70 or 80 years makes the process observable over a long period of time, says Stefanov, allowing the scientists to collect large amounts of data.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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