strange
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It’s in this strange almost-loft space on 2nd Street downtown, and I’ve been there three times since early July.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
As strange, inexplicable happenings begin to disrupt the recording session—a mysteriously opening door, a sudden appearance of a menacing masked figure in the booth—Lucas begins to lose his emotional equilibrium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
I found Lisandro Martinez's outburst about Manchester United's recruitment very strange, especially after his mistake that cost his side victory over Tottenham.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
With that strange mental image firmly embedded in my brain, it’s time for me to dip out.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
A strange group, to say the least, but it was a known fact that tortoises were the socialites of the woods.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
“Let me just say that stranger things have happened, OK?”
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
At a San Francisco playground, a stranger tried to befriend an OpenAI employee who was there with their child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Unsurprisingly, her current focus is the aforementioned Hasan Piker, a man who is no stranger to controversy and has courted plenty of internet feuds of his own.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Teresa Kuan said that some people prefer the option of pouring their hearts out to a complete stranger for a fee.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
And even though the memory of that “Dixie”.whistling stranger still gave me chills, I knew I could face whatever may come.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
While Holmes comes across as very evasive and very bad at hiding it, though, Mr. Evans proves strong competition for being the strangest person here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Still, this is probably the strangest rebrand we’ve seen so far, partly because there was no public impetus for such a visible change.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
Quantum entanglement captures one of the strangest differences between everyday physics and the quantum world.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Times Food team weigh in on their Langer’s orders — and owner Norm Langer shares some of his customers’ strangest requests through the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
But I have the strangest and best of all human emotions about it—hope.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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