strange
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What a long, strange hero’s journey it’s been.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Backlash to Flock Safety cameras, the threat of artificial intelligence and the proliferation of new data centers is bringing together some strange bedfellows on TikTok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
"In the initial weeks, I had this really strange pang of wanting to go back. Because it was something I understood," Gershkovich recalled.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
She said: "Millions of people, all having completely different days, piling into the same conversation for a few hours - what a strange and lovely thing!"
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
For many Filipinos, their once-familiar neighborhoods have become a strange new world.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Tech executives are no stranger to a Princess Diaries–style makeover.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
And the person next to you, a stranger, feels it too, at the exact same moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
That means we may never know with certainty whether the entire universe is infinite, finite, curved, or connected in some larger and stranger way.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
"That's coming from somebody who was a stranger and who I've only met three times. That's what nice people are."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
She rarely even spoke to me, so I found it strange that she would ask for my help, but the chore she wanted help with was even stranger.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
Quantum entanglement captures one of the strangest differences between everyday physics and the quantum world.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Herzog’s adventurous spirit has led him to explore the furthest reaches of the globe, but also inward to map the strangest recesses of the heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
“It is the strangest thing,” said Mr. Wopsle, drifting into his lost look again; “and yet I could swear to him.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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