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Recent Examples of out-of-the-way
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Meanwhile, Ojibwe chef Bryce Stevenson, a key figure in the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement and a 2024 James Beard Award semifinalist, took a big gamble in 2023 by choosing his out-of-the-way home turf as the location for a high-concept restaurant, Miijim. Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024 Having somehow returned, firmly, to the real world, the narrator decides to quit his job and start working in a library in a small, out-of-the-way town in Fukushima Prefecture. Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024 Many who were imprisoned there, and at similar camps scattered in out-of-the-way corners of the country, spent the rest of their lives trying to erase the memory. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024 Label and stack them in an out-of-the-way place, like under the sink or the linen closet. Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for out-of-the-way
Recent Examples of Synonyms for out-of-the-way
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  • The movie, based on the video game of the same name, centers around four misfits who are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025
  • But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.
    Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 30 Mar. 2025
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  • In an unusual coincidence, Saldivar was denied parole on Thursday, the same day as Lopez's announcement.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The contract also maintains its unusual provision allowing Sanders to disclose any athletically related outside income to his superiors verbally, thus enabling him to follow NCAA bylaws while ensuring that no public paper trail is created for these earnings.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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  • Sure, the plot’s kind of a mess, but warrior Alice is an empowering turn while Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter’s big-headed Red Queen are splendidly strange.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
  • This brings to conclusion one of the stranger and more dramatic human spaceflight stories in years.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • For those with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity, skin reactions like eczema are not uncommon.
    Lauren O'Connor, MS, Health, 30 Mar. 2025
  • This doesn’t mean that iron jewelry was uncommon during the Viking Age.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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  • Gargantuan, weird outcomes can start small in the tech world, and often innocently.
    Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The trendy beauty treatment is all the rage on TikTok, and it’s garnered tons of attention for being a weird way to reap anti-aging benefits.
    Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • Everyone was so nervous to tell Mike what our number was, which was so funny.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Welcome to My Blue Sky is twice as great — totally brash, always loud, always effusive, and usually funny even when their lives are falling apart, which is constantly.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
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  • That may sound odd coming from someone who’s played in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers, Brooklyn Nets and now LA Clippers.
    Law Murray, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are discovered across the planet.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
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  • Education isn’t in the family tradition, much less acting, but Philip identifies rare talent in the kid and takes him on as a cause.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Sienna Miller and her daughter Marlowe made a rare appearance together at Savannah Miller’s Bridal Ballerina Breakfast, and the resemblance between the two is uncanny.
    Nicol Natale, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Out-of-the-way.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/out-of-the-way. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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