weird

Yet Mr. Nichols reminds us that Emerson and the Emersonians could be downright weird.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But I’m a funny Dylan fan because I like the weird lyrics he does, like “Clothes Line Saga” from “The Basement Tapes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

I also found weird things like how many Atlantic hurricanes this year or if California will be hit by a magnitude 8 earthquake, which goes without saying but would be extremely bad.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

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for the Count Binfaces of this world, not because they’re weird, but because their particular kind of oddity has an outdated, cringe-inducing, dad-joke mustiness to it.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

It turned out to be two drab gray shirts, each sporting a weird number on the pocket.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

“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

There is also a chicken character, but it doesn’t appear much more real than its animated counterpart—just weirder, like something that escaped from an underground lab at Perdue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Where we’re headed could be a lot weirder and more dangerous.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025

“The weirder, the sillier, the more authentic, the better.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

“Why should I? What could be weirder than my dream?”

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

Swifties and their ideological opposites have both been Monday-morning quarterbacking last weekend’s shindig, accepting even the weirdest bad-faith gossip without question.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

But he may have had the weirdest background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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

But, according to one of the weirdest findings in finance, the opposite is true.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Everyone stared—especially at Dari, because he was usually so serious in class—and I felt half embarrassed and half proud, because I had the weirdest friends in the seventh grade.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller