weird
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Or as Thompson himself told us, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
When Henderson walked into the shed that day, a weird, white, papier-mâché creature on the shelf caught his eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
“What’s weird is you have these insane growth numbers.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
Forgo pondering the eternal question of why the pumpkin in the shape we want has a weird wart and why the pumpkin without the weird wart isn’t in the shape we want.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
It was all weird, Jonah thought, stepping in and out of the shadows.
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
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
So truly the line between Chris and Jacob is getting weirder.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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
“This is getting weirder by the minute,” said Steven.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
It has already been described as 2026's weirdest rom-com, external.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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
He did this by causing one of the weirdest and funniest political scandals of the modern era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
Gum Baby stood in front of the weirdest tree I’d ever seen.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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