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Recent Examples of weirdly
Trotsky’s arguments about revolution in one nation versus a revolution of the international proletariat, like the fine argumentative tracery of Paul’s Jewish Christians versus Greek ones, seemed vital to the movement at the time but weirdly trivial and abstract to those outside it.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
An outsider romance peppered with gallows humor and bubbling over with giddy optimism, Harold and Maude is a life-affirming, weirdly wonderful film about a rich kid with a death wish and his love affair with an exuberant 79-year-old woman.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Her squid-ink flavor profile was one note, and her monkfish had a weirdly wet and spongy texture that Rhoda defends but that none of the judges can figure out.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
Still annoyed, weirdly offended, and slightly spiraling.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 6 Apr. 2026
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
An outsider romance peppered with gallows humor and bubbling over with giddy optimism, Harold and Maude is a life-affirming, weirdly wonderful film about a rich kid with a death wish and his love affair with an exuberant 79-year-old woman.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Her squid-ink flavor profile was one note, and her monkfish had a weirdly wet and spongy texture that Rhoda defends but that none of the judges can figure out.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
Still annoyed, weirdly offended, and slightly spiraling.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdly
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
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
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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
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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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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdly. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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