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oddball

[od-bawl] / ˈɒdˌbɔl /
ADJECTIVE
eccentric
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In the sections of “Why We Make,” displays of historic artisanry are too often marred by oddball amateurism.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

Did your love of country music make you an oddball as a schoolkid growing up in England?

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2026

M31-2014-DS1 initially stood out as an "oddball," De says, but it now seems to be one of several examples, including NGC 6946-BH1.

From Science Daily Feb. 14, 2026

His name was Colonel George Fabyan—pronounced FAY-bee-an—and he was the owner of an oddball estate called Riverbank.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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