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Second, it marks a solid finale for a genre largely relegated to streaming, because for some odd reason, film executives don’t understand how powerful a collective romantic experience outside your living room can be.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Money never changed hands, but you were paying them in kind by doing odd jobs at their home on request.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
"If you're cancelling plans with your significant other or directing your intimacy towards a fictional character, then that is a little odd."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
A year later, “it feels a little odd to say that,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
It was an odd thing to have in a grown-up’s bookcase, even one who read as much as Doc seemed to.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Even odder is that many of the composers did not necessarily feel compelled to explore nationalist themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
All of this makes it seem odder that Google has become one of the biggest thorns in Nvidia’s side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Among one of the odder entries in Tuesday's document drop was a fake video showing an Epstein-like figure in a prison cell, which raised questions of how it had appeared in the department's official files.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
They have earned more views, likes and comments than many other A.I. photos, according to a review by The New York Times, prompting a race to depict the 86-year-old in odder and odder situations.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
What was odder still was that the evacuation of Centralia was not total.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
I don’t know your brother, but I do know — from letters to this column — that people do the oddest things.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
She added in the same thread: “The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s ‘personal’.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
"I definitely look back on it fondly. Do I get recognised? Yes I do in the oddest of places but they never ask me," she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
A recurring song, “Stranger” by Sweden’s Anna von Hausswolff, creates an ethereal, floating sensation like one of the oddest Lana Del Rey compositions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
“Isn’t it the oddest thing, the way Joe took to that old man?”
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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