oddballs
Example Sentences
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But the scenes she’s devised for these sympathetically difficult oddballs go nowhere.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Change-inducing nonconformists are out there on the edge of progress, pushing that boulder up the hill, sweating and usually being called oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
Others are just attention-grabbing oddballs, like Golden Curls, a corkscrew willow with twisted yellow stems.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024
Compared to the familiar moons of our Solar System, they would all be oddballs: at least twice the size of Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System and therefore almost as big as Earth.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023
A few oddballs from the Political Science department wore black armbands.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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