oddity
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One oddity of any discussion of China’s economy is the persistent presumption that saving is a bad thing in a still-developing economy with enormous scope for productive investment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 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
How this proudly low-budget effort managed to license those tunes is as curious as so much else in this ragtag oddity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
He said local farmers would have been wondering what was going on at Blaenllain Farm, adding: "You were shining a beacon on the oddity of it all."
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025
Pascal’s explanation is a mechanical explanation, and its oddity is that it extends the scope of mechanical explanations from the artificial world of levers and pulleys to the natural world of gases and liquids.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing oddity
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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"Superman and Me" and "A Smart Cookie/It's Our Story, Too"
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Emma
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