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But it cannot offer the particular surprise of encountering another person who has decided, for no reason other than the pleasure of it, to show me something strange and wonderful.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
But what feels untethered and strange now, may not, in some situations, feel so strange in time.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Several years ago, while examining observations collected by ZTF, Burdge noticed a particularly strange pattern.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
He experiences strange visions: of a sea monster, of a “great white bird,” even of Cora herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
It seems strange now to think that I didn’t know anything about Jessica Feeney then.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Sramek, 39 years old, is no stranger to big deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Tishman Speyer is no stranger to the famous 77-story office tower: the developer bought the lease at auction in 1997 and finished fully divesting from it in 2019.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
And the person next to you, a stranger, feels it too, at the exact same moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"That's coming from somebody who was a stranger and who I've only met three times. That's what nice people are."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
For a moment her face convulsed with shock, with hope, with something stranger and more complicated than both; and then she shook her head.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Still, this is probably the strangest rebrand we’ve seen so far, partly because there was no public impetus for such a visible change.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
Quantum entanglement captures one of the strangest differences between everyday physics and the quantum world.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Times Food team weigh in on their Langer’s orders — and owner Norm Langer shares some of his customers’ strangest requests through the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The social media account regularly shares videos of property listings, often highlighting some of the strangest looking houses on the market across the country.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
It’s the strangest thing, to spend all this time in school—forced through all these mandatory lessons—despite the fact that most of these subjects lead nowhere.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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