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out of place

phrase as in extraneous

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There’s a song about golf that melodically wouldn’t be out of place on Lou Reed’s “Transformer.”

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Speaking of debilitating nostalgia, this one might feel a bit out of place in this album’s universe, but it’s a heartrending gem nonetheless.

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She has a vibrato that is out of place.

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His screeching bigotry would feel out of place in her pastel-colored dreamland, where nothing interesting ever happens.

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The team knew they had to act quickly and has been deploying a mixture of techniques that wouldn't look out of place in a military operation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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