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Burners, as the campers are known, have seen their share of treacherous weather and odd circumstances at the festival in recent years including a birth, claims that the event was “demonic” and deaths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
It took a Wall Street analyst noticing something odd in a database to surface the halted research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
At first blush, this torrent of spending is a little odd.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
This election will draw only the most committed voters to come out and cast ballots at such an odd time.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
“My own sister,” she would exclaim at odd moments of the day.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Even odder is that many of the composers did not necessarily feel compelled to explore nationalist themes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
All of this makes it seem odder that Google has become one of the biggest thorns in Nvidia’s side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
What might seem even odder is that the crowns and regalia travel to Westminster separately in their own carriage.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
They have earned more views, likes and comments than many other A.I. photos, according to a review by The New York Times, prompting a race to depict the 86-year-old in odder and odder situations.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
She had an absolute distrust of authority and an insistence on complete privacy which seemed to make her, and my family, even odder.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
I don’t know your brother, but I do know — from letters to this column — that people do the oddest things.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Which brings us to the oddest circumstance of all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Those are some of the stories Wayne Rooney has revealed when remembering some of his oddest away trips on his latest BBC podcast.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
They were also there in my oddest hours — I once wore an argyle tie for an entire year in hopes of impressing a certain woman, and they never made me change.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
The oddest things caused me to miss her.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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