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Graham replied: “Well, OK, from my point of view, if you know anything about me, it’d be odd not to do this.”
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
This is the odd process—at least in the eyes of U.S. sports fans—of soccer teams moving up and down the ranks of the sport’s various levels of competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"It's just sort of an odd thing. Young people in particular, they coined this term 'AI slop'," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s odd and discordant with a strange magic all its own — a blessing in what’s otherwise a lame remix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
I even picked up odd jobs over at Mr. Pinkerton’s detective agency, sewing stylish trousers and cotton shirts for Mr. Bangs and his costume supply.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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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
If attacking a public advocacy group seems like an odd stance for an elected official, it’s made even odder by the fact that Lara wouldn’t have his job if it weren’t for Consumer Watchdog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
It was one of the odder tit-for-tat battles to have emerged so far in the federal case accusing former President Donald J. Trump of plotting to subvert the 2020 election.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
“Yes. Red hair, like Angelica’s. He certainly looks mad. I don’t know—I think this is odder than Sir Charles said. Let’s look farther up before we speak to him.”
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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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
Those are some of the stories Wayne Rooney has revealed when remembering some of his oddest away trips on his latest BBC podcast.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
Of all the oddball companies that have come to define the current era of artificial intelligence hype, Elon Musk’s xAI stands out as perhaps the oddest.
From Slate ● May 16, 2025
In one of pop music’s oddest confluences, future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones sat in on that 1964 recording session, years before the band came together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
And then I thought of the oddest thing.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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