strangeness

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Recent Examples of strangeness One of them noted the strangeness of knowing so well what Nikel looks like without ever having been there. Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 But the feeling itself, for all its intuitiveness, conceals some strangeness. Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024 Mixed in with the everyday dross are a few sparkly flecks of strangeness, curious anomalies that might be clues to a larger mystery. Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024 Peeples-Bright’s total life investment in minutiae and strangeness is only one factor. Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for strangeness 
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Noun
  • The peculiarity of this photographic work lies in its modern view, through the people who have kept their clothes as heirlooms and pass them on to the next generation while using them on customary and festive occasions spontaneously, updating the mechanisms of tradition as a process.
    PhotoVogue, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Such peculiarity encourages reconsideration of this otherwise unexceptional comedy.
    Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The Fall was filmed over four years, with various production singularities that have since become infamous among the film’s devoted fanbase.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The creation of pattern through repetition—turning a thing into a field the way Peeples-Bright typically does—trades in singularity and apartness for a new, larger community and sense of rhythm.
    Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • This solid foundation enables the Bilstein DTX shock absorbers to do their work, with fast reaction times that let the various drive mode settings deliver distinctly different ride and handling characteristics.
    Dan Carney, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
  • These are split into four groups of four based on common characteristics and placed into categories.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • As further evidence of its oddity, Triton encircles its parent in the opposite direction compared with the other moons.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Red flags to be aware of – oddities in facial expressions or backgrounds; voice inconsistencies that come across as unnatural; pressure tactics used by the impersonator.
    Gene Marks, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • His eccentricities — once easily dismissed as the affectations of a lonely man — read maniacal.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Strangely, the results come off as a directorial affectation, a willful cramping of her style.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Think outside the box and apply discipline and physical attributes to turn your pursuits into something tangible.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Sometimes soccer is as simple as signing a player with the exact attributes to deal with your biggest weakness.
    Steve Price, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • On the other hand, Harris has a significant edge on many character and personal traits, and her personal popularity ratings are a little better than Trump’s.
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Many types of true lilies are classified based on specific traits, such as bloom shape and growth.
    Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2024

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