oddball
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So, too, did all of his department heads on their own fiefdoms and the oddball band Tune-Yards on the score, a cacophony of circus oompahs, mouth harps and kazoos.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
M31-2014-DS1 initially stood out as an "oddball," De says, but it now seems to be one of several examples, including NGC 6946-BH1.
From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2026
He cut his teeth as a martial arts expert and stand-up comic before becoming an oddball character in the mid-1990s television sitcom “News Radio.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
They followed it up with the vibrant, oddball, goosebumpy 3D Country in early 2023.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026
The others at Camp Jupiter saw him as a traveling oddball, about as harmless as the fauns.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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