peculiar
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Two of my siblings are getting married this year, which means I’ve been thinking more than usual about wedding registries — that peculiar exercise in imagining a future life.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026
He jokes about the defamation suit, about the friends who stopped calling and the peculiar loneliness of being cancelled in the age of social media, where your worth is measured in real-time metrics.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
It’s so peculiar that when the guy who long oversaw the process first encountered the sights and noises emanating from the seaweed lab, he questioned his career choices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
This dinosaur belonged to a peculiar group of bird like theropods called alvarezsaurs.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026
This anonymous writer was positive that the rappings sounded “always under or about the mediums” and called one of the male mediums “most peculiar and un-wholesome looking.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Vocabulary lists containing peculiar
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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