weird
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Mr. Gershkovich instead finds himself trapped in a weird legal limbo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
"It's a weird thing, if something is trying to scare you, and you say you're scared then they've sort of won," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Nothing especially weird about that—celebrities do pregnancy reveals on social media all the time.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
"It's definitely some weird cultural thing where mainstream movies are now mostly fantasy: fantasy, science fiction, horror, comic books, all different kinds of fantasy," Ethan, 69, explained.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
When we finish the last fast burst, he lets out a whoop and holds out his hand for a high five—which I give him, which is weird.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
“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
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
It’s almost like the weirder I am, the more he loves me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Before a 2023 writers strike that knocked late-night shows off the air for five months, the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 was a longer, weirder disruption for Colbert and his staff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Maybe like might be confusing, but popular is even weirder.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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
The weirdest thing is that Marx is the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado, an actual part of these United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
What's the weirdest thing in your suitcase, boys?
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
But, according to one of the weirdest findings in finance, the opposite is true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Looking up, I saw the weirdest mismatched group I’d ever seen.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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