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freaky

[free-kee] / ˈfri ki /


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It sounds freaky when you read about how the OpenAI hacker agents all “talked” to one another on special forums—but all software, generative or not, is communicative by nature.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

It’s like a freaky evolution of the human-mishap extravaganzas that progressed from “America’s Funniest Home Videos” to “Jackass” to subreddits like Whatcouldgowrong to viral clips crashing my algorithm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Chase told the The Times in 2002 of playing the iconic character: “ I just kind of took my own voice and put this freaky twist on it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

He was in our world but not of it, sent down to carry revelations of new ways to be funky, freaky and free.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026

“Underwood, who’s the freaky old man? The guy in the woods?”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

Yet this novel is more interesting when it explores the freakier aspects of the alien’s presence: Every evening at around the same time, local oldsters with dementia become briefly lucid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

The family dynamic gets freakier as there is a quadruple body-swapping.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2025

There are two things even freakier than seeing vibrating magnetic fields of plasma-light around our galaxy's black hole.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2024

Happy New Year, Slate Plussers, and here’s hoping you’ve enjoyed the holiday season, even if you had to endure freakish weather and freakier family.

From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2016

Beauty may always be a little bit freakish, but the year I turned thirteen I was becoming freakier than ever.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The one thing that the hottest, freakiest fishing lure of the summer doesn’t look like?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

But even among the freakiest stars in the universe, things can get weirder.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2022

The funniest, freakiest comedies of the year so far both imagine hard-to-stomach forms of performance art: wild gastronomical soundscapes in Peter Strickland’s “Flux Gourmet” and anesthesia-free abdominal surgery in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

Ballard’s freakiest music tradition resumes with this multivenue fest wrangled by local label Freakout Records and psych-rock vets Acid Tongue.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021

“Like this isn’t a gang. Please. It’s the freakiest gang ever.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray


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