oddball
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Rai is the oddball wearing not one, but two gloves.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
"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
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
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
Reynie did, but he had always been alone in this, had always been considered an oddball.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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