of all places
idiom
—used to say that it is unusual or surprising that something happened in or is true about a particular place
She met her future husband in a grocery store, of all places.
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The Times spoke with Clown and the band’s ferocious new addition, 33-year-old former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande, about the impact of that first album, the curse of phones at shows and Clown’s off-duty life in Palm Springs, of all places.
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August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
Marla was at a conference in Bloomington, Indiana, of all places, receiving her usual accolades in the difficult, sometimes hopeless field of juvenile-justice reform, navigating between the federal government and various state, local, and tribal organizations.
—Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
What is more quintessentially weird L.A. than a 90-year-old WWII ghost ship permanently docked in, of all places on Earth, Long Beach?
—Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
Lo and behold, his name came up – on LinkedIn, of all places.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
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August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
Marla was at a conference in Bloomington, Indiana, of all places, receiving her usual accolades in the difficult, sometimes hopeless field of juvenile-justice reform, navigating between the federal government and various state, local, and tribal organizations.
—Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
What is more quintessentially weird L.A. than a 90-year-old WWII ghost ship permanently docked in, of all places on Earth, Long Beach?
—Jess Joho, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
Lo and behold, his name came up – on LinkedIn, of all places.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
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“Of all places.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20all%20places. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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