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odd

[od] / ɒd /




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"I have this odd moment - a sense of relief flooding over me," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

"It's a bit odd they were here in the middle of the night," one local told AFP as she did some gardening in the nearby village of Kempsford.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

It would be odd for Harbaugh to publicly admit to anything else at this point, especially because he’s not in a good position to do much else to salvage the season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

But within the physics of professional cycling—a sport built around wind resistance, watt production, and superhuman tolerance for pain—that odd collection of attributes turns out to be uniquely powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Penelope thought it odd that Simon had not yet written to tell her what he had learned from his great-uncle.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

All of this makes it seem odder that Google has become one of the biggest thorns in Nvidia’s side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

If attacking a public advocacy group seems like an odd stance for an elected official, it’s made even odder by the fact that Lara wouldn’t have his job if it weren’t for Consumer Watchdog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

What might seem even odder is that the crowns and regalia travel to Westminster separately in their own carriage.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023

They have earned more views, likes and comments than many other A.I. photos, according to a review by The New York Times, prompting a race to depict the 86-year-old in odder and odder situations.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

She had an absolute distrust of authority and an insistence on complete privacy which seemed to make her, and my family, even odder.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

I don’t know your brother, but I do know — from letters to this column — that people do the oddest things.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

She added in the same thread: “The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s ‘personal’.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

A recurring song, “Stranger” by Sweden’s Anna von Hausswolff, creates an ethereal, floating sensation like one of the oddest Lana Del Rey compositions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Of all the oddball companies that have come to define the current era of artificial intelligence hype, Elon Musk’s xAI stands out as perhaps the oddest.

From Slate ● May 16, 2025

And then the scythe did the oddest thing.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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