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weird

[weerd] / wɪərd /


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“A lot of scientists and regulators sort of looked at this as this weird blip on the screen,” Ziegler said.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

“Some people think that it’s, like, weird because I can fly planes, but I can’t drive a car,” the then-high-schooler in Boca Raton, Fla., told a local CBS News affiliate back in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

"About two months ago, I received a weird email from someone claiming to be 'Olivia Rodrigo'," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

And because especially now, the world is in such a weird place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“No idea. But the mystery of where our future selves get the weird disappearing paper is solved.”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The slower, slinkier and weirder side of Prince’s output is another reference point throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“I would like to think I’m not one of the weirder personalities,” Goroyan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

“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

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

“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

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

And this summer, it has brought about the weirdest offseason in recent memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

But he may have had the weirdest background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

"Tom was somebody who really saw the joy in life. He would find humour in the weirdest places. I often think about his laugh," Parfett said.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Everyone stared—especially at Dari, because he was usually so serious in class—and I felt half embarrassed and half proud, because I had the weirdest friends in the seventh grade.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller


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