plural oddities
1
: an odd person, thing, event, or trait
2
: the quality or state of being odd
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Examples of oddity in a Sentence
Her shyness makes her a bit of an oddity in the business world.
The zoo has such oddities as anteaters and platypuses.
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The Club World Championship may have seemed like an oddity on this side of the Atlantic, but how was it viewed in the tournament’s host nation?
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Jack Lang, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
The 2024 awards, however, were an unmitigated disaster for host Jo Koy, and, not for nothing, Jerrod Carmichael’s experimental take the year prior remains one of the great oddities of recent award-show memory.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
View gallery - 14 images 2024 has been a year in space that has seen successes, failures, a clutch of firsts, and some goodbyes – not to mention a long-distance probe rescue, spacesuits on the catwalk, and a couple of cosmic oddities.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025
Explanations Are Over-The-Top OpenAI seems to have remained mum and isn’t telling us what is at the root of this oddity.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Jack Lang, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
The 2024 awards, however, were an unmitigated disaster for host Jo Koy, and, not for nothing, Jerrod Carmichael’s experimental take the year prior remains one of the great oddities of recent award-show memory.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
View gallery - 14 images 2024 has been a year in space that has seen successes, failures, a clutch of firsts, and some goodbyes – not to mention a long-distance probe rescue, spacesuits on the catwalk, and a couple of cosmic oddities.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025
Explanations Are Over-The-Top OpenAI seems to have remained mum and isn’t telling us what is at the root of this oddity.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Oddity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddity. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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oddity
noun
odd·i·ty
ˈäd-ət-ē 
plural oddities
1
: something odd
2
: the quality or state of being odd
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