oddballs

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Change-inducing nonconformists are out there on the edge of progress, pushing that boulder up the hill, sweating and usually being called oddballs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

Others are just attention-grabbing oddballs, like Golden Curls, a corkscrew willow with twisted yellow stems.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

The film is directed by Chris Smith, whose prior work, including “American Movie,” “Tiger King” and “Sr.,” makes him no stranger to the worlds of eccentrics and oddballs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2024

Compared to the familiar moons of our Solar System, they would all be oddballs: at least twice the size of Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System and therefore almost as big as Earth.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023

Geeks, nerds, and oddballs have the right to attend school in safety.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz