weird
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Every time they say “Insert Name,” it sounds totally awkward and weird.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
“I look really weird but it’s four in the morning,” says Minicucci.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"We're measuring the interaction of thousands or millions of electrons, and they are all moving together in a coherent way. That's a quantum many-body phenomenon, and it's actually a very weird thing."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Probably not, but the Huntington’s “Strange Science” is typically an esoteric exploration of the weird.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“What’s in it for me?” he whispered back, his arms wrapping around me in what was probably the most awkward and weird hug of my life as he kept up the bizarre charade.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The monthslong rout in global government bonds is getting messier and weirder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Everything we do that’s perceived as absurd always starts from a real place of: ‘Something like this exists, and we’re going to expand upon it and go deeper and weirder with it.’
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
It’s almost like the weirder I am, the more he loves me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Gian Carlo Menotti’s gothic libretto felt weirder than usual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
“Yeah. Insane. Even weirder, she wrote this journal and left it with them. That’s what I was reading before you came in.”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
The somewhat unexpected money has given them permission to act on their “biggest, craziest, weirdest dreams,” said Novack, 35, who was most recently a senior category manager at Impossible Foods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He said the weirdest conspiracy theory he’d heard in the wake of the shooting was that he’s a government plant.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
The cabins were the weirdest collection of buildings you’ve ever seen.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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