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[od] / ɒd /




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Former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently posted an odd picture on social media.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

Dyslexic, Harry dropped out of school in the ninth grade, joined the Navy, and served two weeks’ military imprisonment before returning to New York City to work odd jobs and scrape by.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

After initially signing with the Angels organization as a teenage international free agent in 2013, Yan eventually spent several years out of affiliated baseball, playing for semipro and amateur teams while also working odd jobs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Bath University professor David Ellis points out that each new technological trend - including the very use of mobile phones - has often prompted odd looks when deployed in public.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

They were friendly enough, and the penmanship was, of course, superb, but there was something odd about them.

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

Among one of the odder entries in Tuesday's document drop was a fake video showing an Epstein-like figure in a prison cell, which raised questions of how it had appeared in the department's official files.

From BBC Dec. 23, 2025

I’m just hoping, should “Wonka 2” be on the horizon, that things get a little odder next time.

From Seattle Times Dec. 13, 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

“Yes. Red hair, like Angelica’s. He certainly looks mad. I don’t know—I think this is odder than Sir Charles said. Let’s look farther up before we speak to him.”

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

One of the oddest and most affecting pieces in the choral repertory is coming to Cincinnati’s May Festival on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal May 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

In one of pop music’s oddest confluences, future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones sat in on that 1964 recording session, years before the band came together.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

The oddest situation was a scythe who was far too pretty for his own good.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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