as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
some new and way-out suggestions for naming the baby
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Recent Examples of way-out
But in the 1950s, Detroit was still about blue-skying massive, gas-swigging machines and way-out concept cars.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Motel Destino is another way-out-there movie.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Nov. 2025
Suddenly, after months of sameness, way-out Pluto makes a move, ending its latest retrograde and turning direct!
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Motel Destino is another way-out-there movie.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Nov. 2025
Suddenly, after months of sameness, way-out Pluto makes a move, ending its latest retrograde and turning direct!
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for way-out
Adjective
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La beauté bizarre of the Lobster Boy is decadent.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Fabianne Therese plays a young woman on a hike in the woods with her boyfriend (Seann William Scott) who runs afoul of a bizarre, imposing figure (pro wrestler Max the Impaler) with a porcelain doll mask intent on raising her as a child.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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The truck had been at the head of a column of seven rescue vehicles, all of which had received clearance from the tower to cross Runway 4 at Taxiway D and head toward a United Airlines flight that was evacuating due to a strange odor onboard.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
28 Apr. 2026
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On World Rhythms, Lockwood trusts the listener to hear the arc of its noises, to trace their emergence and disappearance, their strange, seductive confluence.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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This leads us on an intimate, and at times funny, journey of self-discovery and missteps told in five chapters over the course of a critical year in Robin’s life.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2026
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And there are some funny moments along the way, such as a scene in which Miranda tries to hang up her coat, having been told to stop throwing it at her assistants.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Morgan, as Dinkins, is a colleague and eventually friend of a dweeby little documentarian played by Daniel Radcliffe, who starts out as the straight man and then inexorably becomes just as weird as everyone else in this show.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
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Well, that’s always been weird to me.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
3 May 2026
Adjective
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With it, this is just kind of an odd, unfortunate (especially for the bird) story.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Business major Andrea Lui found the chatbot’s voice to be surprisingly human, but the conversation felt choppy with odd pauses.—
Jocelyn Gecker,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Still, politics are rarely articulated in #vintagelife, which, with its manic reiteration of past-tense norms, occupies a peculiar position in relation to mainstream culture.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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And now, in the midst of our own peculiar version of civil dissolution, comes a new edition from the Library of America.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That is unlikely to happen, but Trump’s erratic policymaking and trade wars have given gold a different kind of currency.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Over the past decade or so, hourly workers across an increasing number of industries have been grappling with erratic schedules that their employers put in place using technology designed to minimize labor costs and maximize productivity.—
Huo Jingnan,
NPR,
3 May 2026
Adjective
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Cloud’s availability this late in training camp was curious, considering her experience in the WNBA.—
Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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People are curious if protein pasta or whole wheat pasta is better for their health, and for good reason.—
Brittany Lubeck,
Verywell Health,
4 May 2026
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“Way-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/way-out. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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