strange
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“It’s so deeply strange — dark and funny, hopeful and menacing all at once,” Philbin said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Mr. Romm emphasizes this through close juxtapositions: From Diphilus, a fourth-century comic writer, we learn that “time is a strange craftsman; it refashions all of us but makes us always worse.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
But they can try to make sense of what just passed, starting with a primary season that was a strange mix of ennui and white knuckles.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
"It's a strange mixture of being glad and happy and sad at the same time," John said, as he touched the stone where his father's name is now inscribed.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
People have always gawked at strange and unusual things.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Vocabulary lists containing strange
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"Song: Go and catch a falling star" by John Donne
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