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curiously

adverb as in peculiarly

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Robert Patterson, professor of mathematics at the University of the State of Pennsylvania, gave Peale his first specimen for the museum, “a curious fish called the paddle fish caught in the Allegheny River,” Peale wrote.

Pauli was curious about that question, but not enough to devote the time to it for which Jung might have hoped.

Still more curious, despite having signed the Peacock distribution deal with Roku, NBCUniversal has yet to reach one with Amazon.

From Digiday

OZY’s mission statement, for example, is “to help curious people see the world more broadly and more boldly.”

From Ozy

That made me curious about what’s going on from a tech angle.

From Fortune

For one Speyside distillery in particular, The Macallan, that process has come to be defined by some curiously small stills.

After the postwar disintegration of the British Empire, Scots curiously disassociated themselves with the period altogether.

Curiously, even the dark meat does not ooze rivers of juice when you bite it.

Curiously, Patton's accusers never came up with a reason she'd have killed her husband.

For the rest of the world, it was a curiously bizarre event.

Yet, so curiously constituted is the native mind, the blowing-up of the magazine was the final tocsin of revolt.

He was looking at me with eyebrows arched, curiously, and there was a faint suggestion of hostility in the set of his mouth.

He put up his brown hands and suddenly sketched Baroudi's curiously shaped eyebrows.

In a corner stood a mediæval well, the sides curiously carved.

The Seneschal peered at him curiously through shortsighted eyes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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