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affected with nausea eating all of that deep-fried food would make most people feel a little queer

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Recent Examples of queer
Verb
The feel-good titles are queering the classics with familiar plot lines of house swaps, fake dates, geographically convenient mistletoe, and plenty more themes that are just fun to see play out with a contemporary and inclusive case of characters. Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024 Was this his way of queering e-commerce, subverting the platform from within? Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024 Fish lesbians often queered feminine aesthetics, warping heteronormative and cisnormative expectations of gender to play with them in more imaginative ways. Quispe López, Them, 1 Aug. 2024 Mx Blouse, spotlighted as Spotify’s GLOW artist in October, is one of the artists, DJs, and nightlife organizers actively queering this diverse metro of six million people (and just as many trees). Jd Shadel, Them, 2 July 2024 Almodóvar’s gaze is more like a series of fun house mirrors here, passing through classic dime-store-novel narrative, the macho-man canon of midcentury Technicolor westerns and the winky camp of queering it all in circa-2023 couture. Leah Greenblatt, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for queer
Adjective
  • The agency said Wednesday that the person was exposed to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks; this is the first US bird flu case linked to a backyard flock.
    Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The patient had been in contact with sick and dead birds in backyard flocks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
    Mike Stobbe and Jonel Aleccia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • At the time, federal law gave the Bureau a strange grab bag of investigative duties, ranging from interstate prostitution to antitrust violations.
    Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • While most incidents have come in New Jersey, other states, including Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, have also reported unusual drone activity to law enforcement.
    Maya Homan, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But when physicians look at a pool of unusual test results, the chaotic sequencing pattern could flag whether something more serious may be going on and the mother could benefit from additional testing, Bianchi said.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Intense, weird, different, arrogant, crazy, selfish and obsessed.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Everything’s about this cancel culture now, and everybody’s obsessed with this whole thing about how you’re supposed to behave.
    Andrew Goldman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Avoid Counterfeit Products and Similar Scams Unfortunately, the vape market can be easily overwhelmed with counterfeit and fake products.
    Lydia Kariuki, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Platforms utilizing blockchain for drug traceability and combating counterfeit medications.
    Chrissa McFarlane, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The political left, especially George Soros, have worked for racial divide by pushing very questionable theories of victimhood.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The industry’s knowledge base remains alarmingly shallow, leading to questionable valuations and incomplete business cases.
    Kjartan Rist, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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  • The 8-3 Steelers were humbled in a blizzard game against their division rivals that snapped a five-game winning streak.
    Hannah Vanbiber, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Clinton political adviser James Carville joked at the time about how bond investors pushing up borrowing rates for the U.S. government could humble the commander in chief.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Crandell, the Harvard physiatrist, is a funny, brainy, and upbeat clinician who treats people with amputations in the Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, a building overlooking Boston Harbor.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • An Instax camera snaps photos throughout the night, the shots progressively funnier the more nog is consumed.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024

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“Queer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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