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[od] / ɒd /




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“So, it’s an odd kabuki dance where two groups of people are talking and I can’t be in the conversation.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

"If you're cancelling plans with your significant other or directing your intimacy towards a fictional character, then that is a little odd."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

It was an odd statement, as it didn’t quite recant the story, which has been thoroughly debunked.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the Vanity Fair interview, Mr. Altman seemed to put an odd and repeated emphasis on how much he loves his children, as if he sensed this as a humanizing tool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

How odd it is to hear Miss Genovese’s clipped voice here, on this fire escape, instead of in the switchboard room at Central.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Among one of the odder entries in Tuesday's document drop was a fake video showing an Epstein-like figure in a prison cell, which raised questions of how it had appeared in the department's official files.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

But Chung’s writing is stronger when she leans toward literary fiction’s more open forms and pursues odder ends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

He was an odd man, and the things he told them were odder still.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

She added in the same thread: “The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s ‘personal’.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The oddest part is that it fell by more than the headline oil price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Of all the oddball companies that have come to define the current era of artificial intelligence hype, Elon Musk’s xAI stands out as perhaps the oddest.

From Slate ● May 16, 2025

On a normal Monday morning in New York, this would’ve been no big deal, but after two days of silence, a . mortal helicopter was the oddest thing I’d ever heard.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan


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