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Recent Examples of strangeness
Relegated in their time to Oscar-night footnotes, they have long since been recognized as his towering twin peaks—cinematic effusions of a dark, visionary, and fundamentally inimitable strangeness, against which the sheen of even a good Oscars ceremony pales.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Heightening the strangeness is the fact that it’s shot in the style of Iranian meta cinema (think Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi), and the mostly Iranian cast speaks Farsi mixed with some French, as Rankin does himself.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
His feature directorial debut, world premiering in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, serves up a mix of existential strangeness and such themes as mental health, identity, and disorientation in the digital age.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service, with her letters in their possession, was now noting the strangeness of her behavior.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Heightening the strangeness is the fact that it’s shot in the style of Iranian meta cinema (think Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi), and the mostly Iranian cast speaks Farsi mixed with some French, as Rankin does himself.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
His feature directorial debut, world premiering in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, serves up a mix of existential strangeness and such themes as mental health, identity, and disorientation in the digital age.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangeness
Noun
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Just one of the endless peculiarities that made up my dad.—
Chris Wallace,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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Advertisement In her loneliness and, paradoxically, in her peculiarity, Mickey embodies a recognizable archetype: the righteous female cop protagonist of a prestige crime drama.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
12 Mar. 2025
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But as the surface evolves, singularities can form: points where our mathematical descriptions break down.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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The most critical example is accelerating the speed at which AI will process data and reach singularity.—
Chaim Mazal,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Overall, the analyst is bullish on EPD stock and views it as a core master limited partnership holding, having both offensive and defensive characteristics.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2025
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These are clones of individual grape varieties that have been bred to ensure certain characteristics, such as resistance to specific diseases.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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According to the researchers, both of these oddities could be explained, however, if the Milky Way once had a second, intermediate-sized, black hole at its heart—one that has long since been subsumed into Sgr A*.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Known for being one of the largest outdoor markets in Texas, with 490 booths spread across 20 acres, this event is a trove of antiques, locally made products, and all manner of funky oddities.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
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The interaction between Briony and Jamie starts off amiably, with Jamie needling Briony for her posh affectations.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Slumming with her sister in San Francisco after her life with her Madoff-like ex in New York implodes, Jasmine Francis isn't quite willing to let go of the affectations that come with living in high society.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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That’s again, current to today’s world and an attribute to Taylor and the way that he’s scripted it.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2025
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Our editors focused on key attributes such as quality, durability, comfort — especially for flying — and portability.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Mar. 2025
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They are also known for filing lawsuits against government authorities, a trait embodied by Rita Bixby, who filed unsuccessful lawsuits against state entities.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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However, each type of storage has its own unique traits.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Strangeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangeness. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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