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as in bizarre
different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion
always has a somewhat weird opinion of what's happening in the news
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as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
weird sounds from the woods just beyond our campsite
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as in magical
having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers
a self-styled, contemporary witch, she sells herbal mixtures that she claims are weird potions
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as in unusual
noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced
a weird little plant that we found growing in the garden
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weird noises
a weird look
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Recent Examples of weird
Given the weird psychology that drove the antagonists in the earlier films — a crazed lady taxidermist and then a psychopathic thespian, respectively — the villains’ thirst for riches here seems a little rote, while the use of El Dorado as a device just piles cliché on top of triteness.
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
As the head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, Compton has the difficult task of making the weirder aspects of the U.S. election process legible to a British audience.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
After one of the weirdest seasons in Dodgers history, where every pitcher seemed to get hurt.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
This episode of What’s Ahead describes how this scheme works and leads to voter confusion and weird, undemocratic results.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
As the head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, Compton has the difficult task of making the weirder aspects of the U.S. election process legible to a British audience.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
After one of the weirdest seasons in Dodgers history, where every pitcher seemed to get hurt.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
This episode of What’s Ahead describes how this scheme works and leads to voter confusion and weird, undemocratic results.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weird
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Physicists debated for decades (opens a new tab) whether this bizarre superfluid-solid hybrid could exist.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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These may seem like last-ditch efforts in the final runup to Tuesday, or like counter-programming to the increasingly vocal (and bizarre) antics of Elon Musk.WIRED, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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Although the weather remained eerie, Ingham County voters found a way to the polls to clost out the 2024 election year.Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Then the divers began to find porcelain, more than three hundred and fifty thousand pieces in all, many of them stacked in eerie columns, their wooden crates having rotted away.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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And even surprises, like a magical experience at Disneyland Paris.Dave Quinn, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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And then there’s the merch, which ranges from baby clothes at H&M to a $499 replica of the magical Mirror of Erised at Pottery Barn.Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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The retirement of Chiarello made this race an unusual exercise for South Bay voters who got to choose between two candidates.Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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In 2016, a record-low voter turnout of 55% — an unusual milestone for an island known for high voter turnouts of 73% to 89% — as well as low numbers in the 2020 election signaled growing voter dissatisfaction with the two main parties amid the island’s financial crisis and recent natural disasters.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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One day, a student noticed something strange: One of the rats in the group trained to expect positive experiences had its tail straight up with a crook at the end, resembling the handle of an old-fashioned umbrella.Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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The result was a strange hodgepodge of a TV series — novel and interesting in hindsight, but maybe not distinct enough to inspire a spot on the DVR at the time.Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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That film won best film while Laura Carreira’s haunting debut feature On Falling won the Sutherland Award in the First Feature Competition.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
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But the song’s piano version, recorded earlier in 2018, is sparser and even more haunting.Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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To test the properties of the magic mud, the group developed custom equipment.Evan Bush, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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That is your magic number, assuming no surprises anywhere else.ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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This simultaneously funny and profound musical spins around a teenage girl (the lovable Carolee Carmello) suffering from a rare genetic disease that makes her age five times faster than normal.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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This is another funny one, but the feud between student and teacher feels awfully relevant in today’s divisive political climate.Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Weird.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weird. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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