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It seems odd that Oracle and Broadcom have seen their stocks plunge while Nvidia’s has held up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
Even though I was OK with a romance for him, it was still very odd witnessing my husband court and fall in love with another woman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
"But I also felt like I was -- these moments were so odd, and I was the one, like, ruining them or, like, bailing on them," Fielder continued.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
He had just returned home to Reno after dropping out of community college and was working odd jobs sweeping popcorn at a movie theater and stocking shelves at a local 7-Eleven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
It was an odd size, almost exactly square.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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
They have earned more views, likes and comments than many other A.I. photos, according to a review by The New York Times, prompting a race to depict the 86-year-old in odder and odder situations.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 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
“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
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
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
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
What music video veteran Guilhaume found most thrilling about visualizing this oddest of musicals was how narrative was always his main concern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
The scythe washed a dish, Citra dried it, and finally Scythe Curie said the oddest thing.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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