weird
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Growing up, I was one of those reflexively contrarian teenagers who hated anything popular and found value in almost anything obscure, independent or weird.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The weird thing is that even though there are plenty of A.I.-generated microdramas, and even though they often look pretty A.I.-generated, many of these stories are still very much made by humans.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
There's a weird and wonderful jet flying over the US.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Fresh hair color, new weird spot on my cheek haha,” she wrote alongside the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“I’m on the list twice, with my new address and my old one, both, just like I got two copies of each of those weird letters. . . .”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
“Everything we do that’s perceived as absurd always starts from a real place of: ‘Something like this exists, and we’re going to expand upon it and go deeper and weirder with it.’
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
Gian Carlo Menotti’s gothic libretto felt weirder than usual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Adora is also in possession of “one of the weirder jobs”: a fellowship from the partially paralyzed, mind-bogglingly rich descendant of a steel baron to provide moral training to his spoiled, acquisitive preteen twin sons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Things got even weirder when it came to the headliner.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2026
“But what’s weirder is I can’t find Ess. She wasn’t in the cabin when we woke up. Nobody’s seen her.”
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
The somewhat unexpected money has given them permission to act on their “biggest, craziest, weirdest dreams,” said Novack, 35, who was most recently a senior category manager at Impossible Foods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He said the weirdest conspiracy theory he’d heard in the wake of the shooting was that he’s a government plant.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
But he may have had the weirdest background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Turkmenistan's odd architecture and reclusiveness has made it a magnet for content creators on social media, some of whom have dubbed it the "world's weirdest country".
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Everyone on the beach thought we were the weirdest family ever.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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