oddball
Example Sentences
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"For a long time, no one knew quite what to make of these oddball little blips of dimming," Bouma said.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
He cut his teeth as a martial arts expert and stand-up comic before becoming an oddball character in the mid-1990s television sitcom “News Radio.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026
His gently oddball vision of loner heroics has plenty of terror-steeped imagery to go with the referential sound design’s aural innocence of antiquated bloops, blurps and synthetic tones.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026
French, who plays 'widow' Debbie Fendon, said: "This is a sitcom about a very strange little oddball family who commit a massive fraud but pretend that it's no big deal."
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
But I had a striking sense that if I’d had a son, he would, at the core, be a lot like this brainy, combative oddball sitting in a musty apartment in a small Idaho town.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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