odd
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Terésa thought it was odd when her husband didn’t return home for lunch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
It took a Wall Street analyst noticing something odd in a database to surface the halted research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
At first blush, this torrent of spending is a little odd.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Now, winners only get the chance to return until they are 55, which could open up the odd place in the field to younger, more highly ranked professionals.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“It was a caller. Someone rang in to place a call and it sounded as if—it was an odd call.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
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
What might seem even odder is that the crowns and regalia travel to Westminster separately in their own carriage.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
What was happening now was like that, but odder, because the edges of things were losing their definition as well and becoming blurred.
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
Which brings us to the oddest circumstance of all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
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
From this close, it was clear that the anguished voice—or voices—came from around the corner, beyond the newest, and possibly oddest, business in Fry.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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