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Recent Examples of strangely
This is both a fault but, strangely, is also through design.
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Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
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
From the beginning, the filing says, Donaldson behaved strangely around her, excluded her from meetings that had bearing on her work, once asked her to leave a meeting, and sometimes refused to engage with her.
—Irin Carmon, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Watching junior right-hander Fabian Bravo of Sun Valley Poly High pitch for the first time, there was something strangely familiar about his windup.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
But there also were instances, once the Tribune brought these issues to the attention of the city and the firms, in which the law firms themselves discovered clerical errors (strangely always in their favor).
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
This new flood of venture-capitalist-as-influencer platforms has promoted and naturalized a distinctive military-industrial idiom that closely—and strangely—apes certain twentieth-century artistic tropes.
—Simon Denny, Artforum, 20 Apr. 2026
Despite my feelings on the movie itself, the unsettling score is something else entirely and is a strangely evocative listen.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Cherry had gone out for the first time since Tom left to do something just for herself—she’d gone out by herself for maybe the first time ever—and this strangely perfect night was here waiting for her.
—Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
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
From the beginning, the filing says, Donaldson behaved strangely around her, excluded her from meetings that had bearing on her work, once asked her to leave a meeting, and sometimes refused to engage with her.
—Irin Carmon, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
Watching junior right-hander Fabian Bravo of Sun Valley Poly High pitch for the first time, there was something strangely familiar about his windup.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
But there also were instances, once the Tribune brought these issues to the attention of the city and the firms, in which the law firms themselves discovered clerical errors (strangely always in their favor).
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
This new flood of venture-capitalist-as-influencer platforms has promoted and naturalized a distinctive military-industrial idiom that closely—and strangely—apes certain twentieth-century artistic tropes.
—Simon Denny, Artforum, 20 Apr. 2026
Despite my feelings on the movie itself, the unsettling score is something else entirely and is a strangely evocative listen.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Cherry had gone out for the first time since Tom left to do something just for herself—she’d gone out by herself for maybe the first time ever—and this strangely perfect night was here waiting for her.
—Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangely
Adverb
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Her writing, like her persona, thrives on noticing the oddly specific ways cultural saturation shows up.—
Andrea Domanick,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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On TikTok, Americans living in places like Vietnam and Thailand stream their days from beachfront cafés, city apartments, and late-night walks through streets that feel both unfamiliar and oddly calm.—
Windsor Johnston,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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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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Worst of all, like Zoolander 2 did before it, the film badly miscalculates the value of showbiz and industry cameos, which reach critical mass when the team members fly to Milan and, weirdly, only one of the latter (Donatella Versace, having an awkward lunch with Emily) seems to work.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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The failure of the network computer also made Ellison weirdly recalcitrant about the cloud.—
Elizabeth Lopatto,
The Verge,
29 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Of the competitive races, two are unusually contentious.—
Jon Regardie,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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For savers, the Fed's ongoing rate pause has effectively preserved an unusually favorable rate environment, one where yields on certificates of deposit (CDs), high-yield savings accounts and money market accounts remain well above the long-term historical average.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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“Strangely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangely. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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