oddball
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Rai is the oddball wearing not one, but two gloves.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 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
They followed it up with the vibrant, oddball, goosebumpy 3D Country in early 2023.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026
To be sure, people sensed he was an oddball at the time, disconcertingly gifted, outspoken, irreverent - in short, a strange mix of child and sage.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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