weird
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Yet Mr. Nichols reminds us that Emerson and the Emersonians could be downright weird.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
I also found weird things like how many Atlantic hurricanes this year or if California will be hit by a magnitude 8 earthquake, which goes without saying but would be extremely bad.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
British politics has a long-cherished reputation for attracting the weird and wonderful.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
And we can have that conversation without being super weird about it, or about AOC herself.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Yeah, totally. Our parents were weird about us talking to you, you know?”
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
There is also a chicken character, but it doesn’t appear much more real than its animated counterpart—just weirder, like something that escaped from an underground lab at Perdue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Where we’re headed could be a lot weirder and more dangerous.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025
The more you look at it, the weirder and more marvelous it is.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
They seem to like the weirder stuff on it rather than the ... let’s call it, the classic rock alternative stuff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
Am I any weirder now than I was yesterday or the day before that?
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
Turkmenistan's odd architecture and reclusiveness has made it a magnet for content creators on social media, some of whom have dubbed it the "world's weirdest country".
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
But, according to one of the weirdest findings in finance, the opposite is true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Patel swiftly developed a talent for online provocation that would generate lots of clicks and comments, albeit from some of the saddest or weirdest people in the country.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Even then, this was the weirdest case he’d ever heard of in his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
It was probably one of the weirdest days of my life, going to meet a person I knew and yet did not know at all.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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