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Recent Examples of strangeness
The use of the miniatures is so striking, there’s just a strangeness to the movie, a feeling that something’s not quite right.
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
If the uncanny is about the familiar in the strange, Eggers lays out a historical familiar for us to find modern strangeness within.
—Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
Much of the new Nosferatu’s unsettling strangeness is crystallized in the pair’s unusual psychic connection.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2024
There’s more richness and strangeness in the beautiful land than its creatives have released into the theater.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
If the uncanny is about the familiar in the strange, Eggers lays out a historical familiar for us to find modern strangeness within.
—Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
Much of the new Nosferatu’s unsettling strangeness is crystallized in the pair’s unusual psychic connection.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2024
There’s more richness and strangeness in the beautiful land than its creatives have released into the theater.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
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Waymo will map the city, adapt vehicles to its peculiarities and test and certify safety, as well as of course maintain the software and probably its own custom made hardware.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
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Due to the Electoral College’s peculiarities, even slight changes in presidential polls in just a handful of states could signal a decisive shift toward either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
19 Oct. 2024
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This interplay could generate the kind of entropy that resolves itself by accident, potentially catalyzing the singularity many are quietly hoping for.—
Luis E. Romero,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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But other times, there might be just a few isolated singularities on the boundary.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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This is definitely the characteristic of Desolas, as there is barely the faintest whiff of smoke.—
Richard Carleton Hacker,
Robb Report,
24 Jan. 2025
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All in all, the benefits of companion plants really boil down to the individual growing characteristics of the plants incorporated, how each of those plants interacts with their growing environment, and how other plants can utilize those characteristics and interactions.—
Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
24 Jan. 2025
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View gallery - 14 images 2024 has been a year in space that has seen successes, failures, a clutch of firsts, and some goodbyes – not to mention a long-distance probe rescue, spacesuits on the catwalk, and a couple of cosmic oddities.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2025
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Explanations Are Over-The-Top OpenAI seems to have remained mum and isn’t telling us what is at the root of this oddity.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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In the 2010s, baking sourdough bread at home went from quirky, hippie affectation to a serious hobby.—
Meghan McCarron,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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That was just a bizarre affectation, a strange impression of a dancing horse that offered basically nothing constructive, and ultimately made his eventual miss look five times as stupid.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
9 July 2024
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Stewart's ability to hit for power could be an attractive attribute for a team that hit 160 home runs in 2024 — 25th in Major League Baseball.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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But all represent the crème de la crème of luxury hospitality in France and are recognized for their exceptional architecture, design, heritage, cuisine, and service—to name a few attributes.—
Mary Winston Nicklin,
AFAR Media,
15 Jan. 2025
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Aside from this unusual trait, Yellow Red Heart promises to delight with vibrant yellow blossoms with a red throat that start early and continue through to a heavy frost.—
Dawn Pettinelli,
Hartford Courant,
18 Jan. 2025
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This month’s trait, kindness, will be celebrated in a Kindness Week at the end of January.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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