Word: odd
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...headed east in the direction of the Australian embassy. In front of him a garbage truck stopped, and its driver hopped out to collect the rubbish bags left out on the pavement. This early, the Jadriyah road was quiet. Shops were still shuttered; a few pedestrians and the odd car went by. The Australian soldiers in their nine-story barracks - set up in the shell of a partly built apartment block in front of the Australian embassy - peered out as they do around the clock, scanning for potential threats...
...Japanese pop culture. The father looks at Takashi and his son in the electric district of Akihabara and sees a "mutated species"?one that he worries has become all but incomprehensible. (Carey has said he created Takashi as a device to give his story conflict. It's an odd decision but it works?though, thankfully for Carey, few genres of "nonfiction" have lower benchmarks for veracity than the travel narrative...
Ugwu-Oju said Ryu’s discussion of the test material was “kind of odd...
...years, we're not going to be talking about this as a delay. We're going to be talking about this as a normal trajectory," Smith says. "And we're going to think about those people getting married at 18 and forming families at 19 or 20 as an odd historical pattern...
...first glance, Jenness is an odd choice. He is a career adman who worked for decades at Leo Burnett before opening his own consulting firm. But delve a little deeper, and Jenness starts to look a lot like a Kellogg man in disguise--and we're not just talking about the time at an Atlanta sales convention when he donned a Tony the Tiger suit. From his first days at Leo Burnett, he worked on the Kellogg account. By 1985, he was running all of his firm's global Kellogg business, often traveling around the world with Kellogg's marketing...