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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
In fact, Roan’s leaning into them to her advantage, queering the rote masculine country references and taking to task the men who leave their girlfriends with unfinished business. Justin Curto, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025 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
  • King Charles and Kate Middleton were both diagnosed with cancer, with the King reportedly still very sick.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 20 June 2025
  • If Rob and Ryan are struck by lightning, get bored, fall out, get sick or lose a court case, will Wrexham look so transcendent?
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Dominican Republic had a moment of its own to celebrate in the 51st minute, though its first-ever Gold Cup goal came in strange circumstances.
    Jon Arnold, New York Times, 15 June 2025
  • That made eating food feel physically overwhelming, which has been one of the stranger parts of his experience.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • James Hurley gives a moving performance at the Road House outside of Twin Peaks, and learns of an unusual vision experienced by his cockney co-worker at Great Northern security, Freddie, who will defend James from the attack of a jealous husband with a most unusual strength-enhancing glove.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 June 2025
  • Is there a relationship between writing and fiction and unusual height?
    Jane Smiley June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • The darkly comedic play by Julia Randall follows Ella as the titular character, a wealthy young woman who becomes obsessed with the online attention her late classmate receives after her sudden death.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 19 June 2025
  • But once upon a time, before teams became obsessed with projections and modeling, the most effective way to evaluate a trade was by asking the question: Who got the best player in the deal?
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • These flaws include counterfeit, defective and tampered components.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 4 June 2025
  • Two iconic murals were painted at the site, including a blue-and-yellow tribute on the side of the Cup Foods where Floyd was accused of spending a counterfeit $20 bill, prompting the fatal police response.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • The market was split between natural products that didn’t perform and luxury beauty loaded with questionable ingredients.
    Megan Bruneau, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • However, many travelers don't think twice about buying a cheap charging cable from a questionable vendor at an airport shop or online marketplace, making these cables a more successful point of attack.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • Next is a visit from a bruised and humbled Atletico Madrid, desperate to make amends for its opening blowout defeat.
    Jeff Rueter, New York Times, 16 June 2025
  • Iran’s neighbors have plenty of beef with Israel too, and have populations that would be pleased to watch the Jewish state humbled.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Ramsey’s memoir is a moving, sometimes funny story about destruction, change and rebirth, told by a woman tempered by fire.
    Laurie Hertzel, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
  • Roman is my kind of Virgil—chatty, funny, forgiving, sharp.
    Marina Harss, New Yorker, 13 June 2025

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“Queer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queer. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.

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