Word: freak
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Kyle is a freak athlete,” Lin said before the season. “The things he does, no one else on this team...
...Well, even if I am, that’s fine. Better to be a one hit wonder than have no hit at all. And the success of “Life of Pi” is a freak success in the sense that it’s a literary novel; it’s not a thriller, it’s not a genre novel, it’s a literary novel. And to have done that well, it can’t be reproduced...
Although not as consistently asinine, “Lil Freak,” is likewise incongruous. Its most jarringly out of place aspect is the sampling of “Living for the City,” Stevie Wonder’s anthem about the African-American struggle against poverty and racism. Alongside this, Usher’s deepest lyrics are probably: “You let her put her hands in your pants / Be my little freak,” which hardly feels appropriate next to Wonder’s sincere words...
...wave that appeared out of nowhere, and in 2000, a British oceanographic vessel recorded a 95-ft.-high (29 m) wave off the coast of Scotland. In 2004, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA), as part of the MaxWave project, used satellite data to show that freak waves higher than 10 stories were rare but did occur on the oceans...
First there were the AOL chat rooms, the pioneer of forums for online creepers and the occasional renegade tween to unite nationwide. Then MySpace came along and ratcheted it up a notch, giving a face to the cyber freak in the form of the emo bathroom mirror photoshoot. And even for the high-brow college crowd, Facebook arrived to provide the perfect venue for creeping clandestinely—without compromising class. But no site has exploded onto the social networking scene quite as absurdly and gloriously as Chatroulette...