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He called it “peculiar” that Loyola Marymount made an about-face after negotiating for months.

SO: Stanley Kubrick said, “I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists, neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.”

"We get all sorts of peculiar messages and nasty information... it is incredibly hard to deal with but we are just doing what we can to try and understand what's happened," she said.

From BBC

The mood at Spurs has been peculiar this summer.

From BBC

He said: "A lot of young people play the piano, that's not peculiar at all. But having a young person play the organ... it's really unheard of."

From BBC

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

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