oddity
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I don’t have much time for the Count Binfaces of this world, not because they’re weird, but because their particular kind of oddity has an outdated, cringe-inducing, dad-joke mustiness to it.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
Melt all of that together and you get a veritable News of the Weird headline factory of criminality and oddity that makes the place so very . . . content rich.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
One oddity of any discussion of China’s economy is the persistent presumption that saving is a bad thing in a still-developing economy with enormous scope for productive investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
In yeast they are extremely small and precise -- a striking oddity in the tree of life that has puzzled chromosome biologists for decades.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026
It was a piece of history as well as an oddity.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
That’s all you need to slow down and start questioning all the oddities.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
With that comes more international fans in the US keen to explore American culture, landscape and all the country's oddities.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
This pattern fits seamlessly among other evolutionary oddities found in Australia, where marsupials reign and mammals lay eggs.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
Look, for instance, for a conductor with a clock as a face, dancing luggage and a cicada jug band, among a host of other oddities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Because of its oddities, many physicists disliked quantum theory, or at least certain aspects of it, and none more so than Einstein.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing oddity
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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