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Two extraordinarily rare fossils found in Wyoming have revealed a strange new species of squid relative that lived approximately 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
"It's a strange situation because normally it's women's health that is the one being ignored but, in this situation, it's the men who weren't being recognised or represented."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The South later resumed border loudspeaker broadcasts for the first time in six years, including K-pop and international news, while the North began transmitting strange, eerie sounds across the frontier, unsettling South Korean residents.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
There is nothing more frightening than when the familiar starts acting strange, in movies or in life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
And it was strange, he’d thought, how the trees—though Clare named them and talked to them and felt desperate for their affection—never perked up to see him the way Captain did.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Like the time he randomly and falsely accused a complete stranger on the other side of the world of being a child molester, simply because the man had disagreed with him?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Southern California’s native chaparral ecosystems are no stranger to fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Every night as she fell asleep, Varsha would watch a stranger on the internet diarising what they'd consumed that day.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Let me just say that stranger things have happened, OK?”
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
His whistling stopped, and the stranger frantically looked all around him into the darkness.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
Raiola only landed in this spot after making the strangest bet in college football several months ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Herzog’s adventurous spirit has led him to explore the furthest reaches of the globe, but also inward to map the strangest recesses of the heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
I would fish where the water was deepest, strangest, bluest on clear days and blackest on the cloudy days.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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