odd
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While there will still be the chance of catching the odd shower, most places will be dry.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The whole thing feels so odd to me.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Terésa thought it was odd when her husband didn’t return home for lunch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
"When you're old, you don't give a toss what anyone thinks, really, so you feel very free. You can have a snooze in the afternoon, and nobody thinks that's odd."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Penelope thought it odd that Simon had not yet written to tell her what he had learned from his great-uncle.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
He said this makes it "all the odder" Wales is the only nation to build a new stadium for a Rugby World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2023
But Chung’s writing is stronger when she leans toward literary fiction’s more open forms and pursues odder ends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
“Ayama yuman,” said the creature, and then something even odder happened: the creatures laughed.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
I don’t know your brother, but I do know — from letters to this column — that people do the oddest things.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
"I definitely look back on it fondly. Do I get recognised? Yes I do in the oddest of places but they never ask me," she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
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
They were also there in my oddest hours — I once wore an argyle tie for an entire year in hopes of impressing a certain woman, and they never made me change.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
“Maybe it will go on down the other side of the hall,” Theodora whispered, and Eleanor thought that the oddest part of this indescribable experience was that Theodora should be having it too.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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