weird
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Every time they say “Insert Name,” it sounds totally awkward and weird.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
"We're measuring the interaction of thousands or millions of electrons, and they are all moving together in a coherent way. That's a quantum many-body phenomenon, and it's actually a very weird thing."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
It’s all sumptuous to look at, from the movie-star faces to the weird but fascinating interiors of the Vermont mansion, all warm wood and stone accents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
But all that matters in the warner/scoffer debate is who is right, not who is weird.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
I hope it’s not too weird that I keep texting you.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
“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
There is also a chicken character, but it doesn’t appear much more real than its animated counterpart—just weirder, like something that escaped from an underground lab at Perdue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
This is all just getting weirder by the minute.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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
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
The weirdest thing is that you know that you’re more alone than anyone, but that more people are thinking about you than ever before.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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