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Recent Examples of strangeness
But for all its delightful strangeness, Groundhog Day is also a rarity among American holidays.
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Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
Relegated in their time to Oscar-night footnotes, they have long since been recognized as his towering twin peaks—cinematic effusions of a dark, visionary, and fundamentally inimitable strangeness, against which the sheen of even a good Oscars ceremony pales.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Heightening the strangeness is the fact that it’s shot in the style of Iranian meta cinema (think Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi), and the mostly Iranian cast speaks Farsi mixed with some French, as Rankin does himself.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
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Avery Keatley, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
Relegated in their time to Oscar-night footnotes, they have long since been recognized as his towering twin peaks—cinematic effusions of a dark, visionary, and fundamentally inimitable strangeness, against which the sheen of even a good Oscars ceremony pales.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Heightening the strangeness is the fact that it’s shot in the style of Iranian meta cinema (think Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi), and the mostly Iranian cast speaks Farsi mixed with some French, as Rankin does himself.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
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This Texas peculiarity is especially confounding to Democratic legislators in Sacramento and Springfield, who would never dream of allowing Republicans to do likewise in California and Illinois, states where Democrats have legislative supermajorities like the GOP does in Texas.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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But that’s a decline with some peculiarities.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
6 Jan. 2025
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Rather, the singularity is humans using AI to become super-intelligent.—
Sam Sammane,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The big bang singularity is not a location in space, unlike the singularities of black holes.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
1 Apr. 2025
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Both dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide, which are part of the same chemical group, have overlapping characteristics, which is why the results can’t definitively differentiate between the two molecules, but future observations might, the study authors said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2025
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This is highly specific work that depends on each plantation's unique characteristics, including location, soil type, and coffee variety.—
Christopher Marquis,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Women are no longer expected to wear corsets, and what was once an oddity invented in a teenager’s bedroom, the bra, has since become a staple of every woman’s closet.—
Molly Peck,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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In a game with all of the bad blood normal for historical division rivals — an oddity for a team Minnesota sees just twice a year — New Jersey led early and never trailed.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
30 Mar. 2025
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Ivy-as-Marilyn is an inconsiderate, amphetamine guzzling faux-intellectual whose devotion to the acting craft is presented as a vainglorious affectation.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The interaction between Briony and Jamie starts off amiably, with Jamie needling Briony for her posh affectations.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Counsell’s decision to hire Quintin Berry away from the Milwaukee Brewers may have taken those attributes to another level.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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An attribute that Buffett considers to be the hallmark of the highest achievers.—
Steve Taplin,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Experts debated the connection, but by 2001 paleontologists uncovered early whale ankle bones that possessed traits only seen among artiodactyls.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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In an era of constant change, global complexity and ever-rising expectations, trust has become the defining trait of exceptional leadership.—
Alejandro Bravo,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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