of all places
idiom
—used to say that it is unusual or surprising that something happened in or is true about a particular place
She met her future husband in a grocery store, of all places.
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The musician was yesterday afternoon photographed in CVS (of all places) wearing look 39 from Bottega Veneta’s pre-fall 2024 collection with leopard-print Fenty x Puma sneakers and a 22-year-old Louis Vuitton bag of Marc Jacobs’s making.
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Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2024
In Las Vegas, of all places, on a Saturday night, there’ll be no shortage of opportunities to do exactly that.
—Luke Smith, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
But especially so when that victory is the 100th in the organization’s history and comes at, of all places, Daytona International Speedway, a track indelibly linked to a team whose place in NASCAR dates back to the sport’s origins.
—Jordan Bianchi, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
The Times spoke with Clown and the band’s ferocious new addition, 33-year-old former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande, about the impact of that first album, the curse of phones at shows and Clown’s off-duty life in Palm Springs, of all places.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
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Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2024
In Las Vegas, of all places, on a Saturday night, there’ll be no shortage of opportunities to do exactly that.
—Luke Smith, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
But especially so when that victory is the 100th in the organization’s history and comes at, of all places, Daytona International Speedway, a track indelibly linked to a team whose place in NASCAR dates back to the sport’s origins.
—Jordan Bianchi, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
The Times spoke with Clown and the band’s ferocious new addition, 33-year-old former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande, about the impact of that first album, the curse of phones at shows and Clown’s off-duty life in Palm Springs, of all places.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Of all places.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20all%20places. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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