: in a weird manner : in a strange way
a weirdly familiar place
has been behaving weirdly lately
… in the pellucid air everything seemed weirdly beautiful …—
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The Dodgers played it smartly, if weirdly, on a night when the Yankees’ valiant effort could be summed up in two words.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
And a weirdly aggressive fan trying to rip a foul ball out of a Dodgers’ player’s mitt.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
Chock gets weirdly territorial about Joan, which pisses the other guys off, but Chock is not here to make friends.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
And there are nice supporting performances, from Hope Davis as a doctor even less ready than Eli to accept the uncanny, and Miriam Shor as an annoying real estate agent, weirdly anxious to sell Eli’s house out from under him, the only real comic part in the piece.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
And a weirdly aggressive fan trying to rip a foul ball out of a Dodgers’ player’s mitt.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
Chock gets weirdly territorial about Joan, which pisses the other guys off, but Chock is not here to make friends.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
And there are nice supporting performances, from Hope Davis as a doctor even less ready than Eli to accept the uncanny, and Miriam Shor as an annoying real estate agent, weirdly anxious to sell Eli’s house out from under him, the only real comic part in the piece.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weirdly. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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