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Recent Examples of strangeness
The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior.
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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
His feature directorial debut, world premiering in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, serves up a mix of existential strangeness and such themes as mental health, identity, and disorientation in the digital age.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
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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
His feature directorial debut, world premiering in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, serves up a mix of existential strangeness and such themes as mental health, identity, and disorientation in the digital age.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
Noun
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Just one of the endless peculiarities that made up my dad.—
Chris Wallace,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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Advertisement In her loneliness and, paradoxically, in her peculiarity, Mickey embodies a recognizable archetype: the righteous female cop protagonist of a prestige crime drama.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
12 Mar. 2025
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Hawking took mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose's proof that singularities do exist in general relativity and extended it to the universe as a whole — proving that, in our models of the evolution of the cosmos, the Big Bang really did begin with a singularity, a point of infinite density.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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But in the media-state singularity, there is not even the pretense of space between the two worlds.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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To pick some specific characteristics, no two athletes are going to have identical muscle constructions, bone densities, leg lengths, centres of gravity, tendon strength, foot-size or foot arches.—
Liam Tharme,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Each impart different characteristics due to their distinct wood grain and chemical compositions.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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It is heated by a wood-burning stove and full of all manner of oddities: an old basketball net, welding helmets, a host of electrical cords, coasters, an impressive anvil in the middle of the room.—
Emilien Hofman (Tr. Elettra Pauletto),
The Dial,
20 Mar. 2025
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There’s just enough harrowing sorrow, eye-popping oddity and acting — whether good or hammy, there’s undeniably a lot of it — to make for a transfixing watch.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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Slumming with her sister in San Francisco after her life with her Madoff-like ex in New York implodes, Jasmine Francis isn't quite willing to let go of the affectations that come with living in high society.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Unlike Chase, Aykroyd worked hard to retain Carter’s affectations and appearance, while also adding a slyness that implied a deeper calculation.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 2025
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That’s again, current to today’s world and an attribute to Taylor and the way that he’s scripted it.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2025
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Our editors focused on key attributes such as quality, durability, comfort — especially for flying — and portability.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Mar. 2025
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Indeed, many, but not all, social and behavioral traits work this way.—
Dalton Conley,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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Their goal is to build a comprehensive database that answers many questions about the behavioral and genetic traits of our friendly felines.—
Manuela López Restrepo,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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