strange
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There is a strange paradox haunting healthcare investing right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
To a human player, some of the strategy's recommendations might initially seem strange or even random.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
There’s a strange irony to this age of relentless self-filming: It’s birthed a devaluing of openness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He described Garcia as a "strange geezer" and said the no-show had done the champion "no favours".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
I already feel I’m in a strange new world.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
A woman who shared a desperate plea for a kidney on Facebook has undergone a lifesaving transplant after a stranger offered to be her donor.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
She is no stranger to public romance, having previously dated Olympic table-tennis champion Zhang Jike, a national icon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
But one of the stranger ones is that, somewhere along the way, Taco Bell became a model of competent public-health communication.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
When considered in full, it seems almost stranger to not recognize them, as El-Sayed did in his tweet five years ago.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
I didn’t have anything like that for my scroll—for obvious anonymous reasons—but the idea of just...telling a stranger about this huge part of you?
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
It was the strangest kind of farewell; more sadness than satisfaction, more 'thanks for the memories' than 'never darken our door again'.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“This is among the strangest proposals,” said Benjamin Höhne, political scientist at Chemnitz University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some reports focused on the strangest claims by Arday of his personal achievements, including that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, some partly with a fracture in his leg.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Astronomers may have found some of the strongest evidence yet for one of quantum mechanics' strangest predictions: even apparently empty space can influence the way light travels.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
But the strangest part about seeing her in his dream was that she looked right back at him.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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