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The man arrested, Lee Harvey Oswald, had defected to the Soviet Union and then, oddly, re-defected back to the United States.
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
The scene is uncomfortable and oddly brief; unusually for an actor-director, Dickinson doesn’t go in for showy scenes and leaves a lot to be inferred.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 May 2025
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
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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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
The scene is uncomfortable and oddly brief; unusually for an actor-director, Dickinson doesn’t go in for showy scenes and leaves a lot to be inferred.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 May 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oddly
weirdly
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As a reminder, here's how Scorsese and the three-time Oscar winner worked together to make romantic sublimation and repressed emotions weirdly sensual.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
21 May 2025
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As usual, Amalric is wonderfully weirdly watchable, as is another French star Vincent La Coste who nicely plays Lilian’s son Julien, and others.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oddly. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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