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This population explosion coincided, oddly, with a downward fertility drift in Europe.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Team-wide 3-point shooting (29.6 percent) is oddly atrocious.
—Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
There is something oddly delightful about a movie that leans into some basic and cheesy ’80s-action-movie machinations — good guys, bad guys, innocent corporate hostages, a rouge hero — and so on.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
The rock is pale like marble, palm-sized and has oddly smooth areas.
—Mark Price, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2025
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Team-wide 3-point shooting (29.6 percent) is oddly atrocious.
—Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
There is something oddly delightful about a movie that leans into some basic and cheesy ’80s-action-movie machinations — good guys, bad guys, innocent corporate hostages, a rouge hero — and so on.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
The rock is pale like marble, palm-sized and has oddly smooth areas.
—Mark Price, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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