strange
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This is a strange misstep, for Mr. Stuttard is impressively well-versed in scholarship about the ancient world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The OLC does a strange thing here where they try to wave this away by saying, Oh, well, here context matters.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026
Speaking on BBC Radio Wales, he said: "It feels good to be alive and get the prize, rather than to be dead and pick it up. It is strange that that is the case."
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Her children are creepily strange and familiar at once, body-snatchers whose survival skills far outpace her own.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
She came to a place in the book where, in the deepest of a sunless winter, for some strange reason, a day dawned bright, bright as a day in spring.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Vocabulary lists containing strange
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"Song: Go and catch a falling star" by John Donne
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