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Recent Examples of weirdly
So will every seemingly casual moment of Ian Rickson’s long-game staging, from lighting (by Isabella Byrd) that often, weirdly, illuminates the audience, to Jackman’s manhandling of an actual lawn mower.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 May 2025
Players could hunt buffalo, talk to Swedes and slowly make their way across the Great Plains and Rockies with pixelated graphics and old-timey music rendered weirdly futuristic by the Apple II’s primitive music card.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
The partial answer, one that feels weirdly isolated from just about everything else in the show, is that the detention center has a drama program whose teacher (Bat-Chen Sabag) sees something extraordinary in him—the same thing that makes Zoro perceive Dean as superior and thus worth protecting.
—Judy Berman, Time, 2 May 2025
So that’s why, weirdly, my creative instinct was always to literature, because of the accessibility.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 May 2025
Players could hunt buffalo, talk to Swedes and slowly make their way across the Great Plains and Rockies with pixelated graphics and old-timey music rendered weirdly futuristic by the Apple II’s primitive music card.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
The partial answer, one that feels weirdly isolated from just about everything else in the show, is that the detention center has a drama program whose teacher (Bat-Chen Sabag) sees something extraordinary in him—the same thing that makes Zoro perceive Dean as superior and thus worth protecting.
—Judy Berman, Time, 2 May 2025
So that’s why, weirdly, my creative instinct was always to literature, because of the accessibility.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weirdly
oddly
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Yet their evaluations of CIA excesses are oddly muted, as if botched attempts to murder foreign leaders were just another form of intelligence failure.—
James Santel,
The Atlantic,
8 May 2025
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According to video obtained by Fox News Digital, people who were in the courthouse when the shots rang out were interviewed by the Kentucky State Police just after the shooting, and described Stines as acting oddly before and during lunch.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2025
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