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Or, let’s say “You Can See Everything” has opened your eyes to all of the different, strange and unwieldy forms a documentary can take.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
A great book, a bad movie: Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun is strange and beautiful—but it might also be unfilmable.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
I was 8 when my mother began throwing parties attended by lots of strange, talented people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Microsoft’s earnings report on Wednesday will finally provide a key metric that Wall Street has sought for more than a decade — but the rest of the release could look a little strange.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
She seemed quite happy, happier certainly than the horses across the yard from her, who were becoming increasingly unsettled at the appearance of this strange intruder.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Owen said people needed to try to overcome any embarrassment they have about performing CPR on a stranger.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The idea of letting children consume goodies prepared by a stranger might seem unthinkable now, but Chason Gordon argues that we’ve lost something by relying solely on store-bought candy.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
A stranger passes by, intruding momentarily on our conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
My sweater sorcery ensures such an approaching person is no longer a stranger but a friend I’m about to make.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The next day, as Duane headed out of his cave and down the hill, he spotted the stranger grazing near Handsome.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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But the strangest thing about their dominance isn’t that they’ve found order in America’s most topsy-turvy sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Between this film and last year’s wonderful “Pillion,” he’s proven himself a daring performer, willing to approach love from its strangest, most complicated and genuine sides.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
For those still with us, here are 10 of the film’s strangest moments — by no means the only ones — along with a few clues from Fielder himself about how they came to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Still, this is probably the strangest rebrand we’ve seen so far, partly because there was no public impetus for such a visible change.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was the strangest thing, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
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