weird
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"It was just the weird patterns on it," he told BBC News NI.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He was having "weird feelings" in his hand for a while but wrestled through the pain - until May last year when it got worse.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
“Tangents, false starts, weird connections you didn’t expect to make mid-thought tend to get cleaned up when AI is involved,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
He keeps “Buddy” enjoyably weird to the end, its horror soul in line with the creepypasta ethos of something undefined yet eternal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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
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The slower, slinkier and weirder side of Prince’s output is another reference point throughout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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
It’s almost like the weirder I am, the more he loves me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Before a 2023 writers strike that knocked late-night shows off the air for five months, the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 was a longer, weirder disruption for Colbert and his staff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
He didn’t seem to care when people looked at him funny, and he didn’t react the way Twig did, by doing something even weirder.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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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
True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Swifties and their ideological opposites have both been Monday-morning quarterbacking last weekend’s shindig, accepting even the weirdest bad-faith gossip without question.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 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
The man thought the weirdest things were funny.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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