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I don’t have much time for the Count Binfaces of this world, not because they’re weird, but because their particular kind of oddity has an outdated, cringe-inducing, dad-joke mustiness to it.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026

Ceuta, like its sister city Melilla, is a geographical oddity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Melt all of that together and you get a veritable News of the Weird headline factory of criminality and oddity that makes the place so very . . . content rich.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

In yeast they are extremely small and precise -- a striking oddity in the tree of life that has puzzled chromosome biologists for decades.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity thanks to Percival Lowell’s obsession with Martian canals, which in the 1910s made it, in every sense, an outpost of astronomical endeavor.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

In this context, medbeds seemed conceptually like fun oddities, akin more to palm readings than to predatory disinformation.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Instead, the focus has been on his victory and the oddities of the race and its aftermath.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

That’s all you need to slow down and start questioning all the oddities.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

The peculiar details in his contested fortune hark back to another strange will from 50 years ago, involving yet another Las Vegas-based entrepreneur, known more now for his oddities than his accomplishments: Howard Hughes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Then, on what had already been a day of oddities and alarms, she noticed something else strange.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien