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[weerd] / wɪərd /


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Whatever Annabel Lee may have thought, this was the period just before the Beatles got truly weird; the fantastic sonic explorations of “Revolver” would come next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

It’s weird; now I really understand a lot of the stuff that I was asked to do early.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Every time they say “Insert Name,” it sounds totally awkward and weird.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

"We're measuring the interaction of thousands or millions of electrons, and they are all moving together in a coherent way. That's a quantum many-body phenomenon, and it's actually a very weird thing."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Last night, Lorren had reminded me that Rachel was the real villain of the Lunch Incident, and she was right, but holy potatoes it had to be said: Oliver was weird.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

The slower, slinkier and weirder side of Prince’s output is another reference point throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“Everything we do that’s perceived as absurd always starts from a real place of: ‘Something like this exists, and we’re going to expand upon it and go deeper and weirder with it.’

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

It’s almost like the weirder I am, the more he loves me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Before a 2023 writers strike that knocked late-night shows off the air for five months, the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 was a longer, weirder disruption for Colbert and his staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

It was weirder than three o’clock this after-noon.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

He said the weirdest conspiracy theory he’d heard in the wake of the shooting was that he’s a government plant.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The weirdest thing is that Marx is the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado, an actual part of these United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Turkmenistan's odd architecture and reclusiveness has made it a magnet for content creators on social media, some of whom have dubbed it the "world's weirdest country".

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

The idea, Platner recalled telling his visitors, was “quite literally the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

He always found the weirdest attractions, like the Bigfoot museum in Georgia.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas




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