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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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Flowers joined the list of sinning Saints, but there won't be a more bizarre booking this season.
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Their delusions are indeed more bizarre , such as thoughts being broadcast into their heads or being controlled by men from Mars.
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The truth was both more mundane and more bizarre .
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That remarkable achievement seems more bizarre with every passing day.
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Reality was proving far more bizarre than anything Polly's subconscious mind had been conjuring up.
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Even more bizarre cases of expensive regulatory adventures abound.
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They've accommodated far more bizarre ones in the past.
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Even more bizarre was the terminology the firm used to describe its internal problems.
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The most bizarre and incredible aspect of this case was what followed.
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This was more than just a belated postscript to one of the closest and most bizarre elections in history.
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For at the table's head sat the most bizarre Scarabae of all.
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Perhaps it is the inevitable curiosity summoned by one of the most bizarre and unnerving crimes of the century.
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First, and perhaps most bizarre , is the field entitled design history.
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And this association is the one which produces Summers's most bizarre evidence.
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Perhaps the most bizarre example involves Bill Hoskins, a masters student in exploratory physics.
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One of the most bizarre things I saw was the lengthy and intricate preparation for the blessing of a new furniture store.
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The beauty of that late summer came to seem, finally, quite bizarre .
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There are well-formed sensory impressions, though sometimes quite bizarre .
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It's odd how faults, often quite bizarre ones, come in pairs in these tests.
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It seems quite bizarre that people who play other people's records for a living can reach these dizzy heights of stardom.
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The offences committed by such people are at times of a rather bizarre nature and may be trivial or serious.
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Thus it was Gorbachev who took the lead in promoting the next summit, using rather bizarre tactics to bring it about.
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This choice of weapons seemed rather bizarre .
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I remember at one rehearsal the Don Giovanni came on stage in a rather bizarre costume.
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His particular application of Benveniste's terms is actually rather bizarre and unproductive.
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So astonishing are the anecdotes, so bizarre the characters, that eventually the reader has to suspend a truckload of disbelief.
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The symptoms may be so bizarre that the disorder is misdiagnosed as a psychogenic condition.
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In fact, so bizarre are these minuscule penile structures that boffins will often rely on them to tell various insects apart.
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Create coincidence so bizarre they have to believe it.
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Because it is so bizarre it is not possible to go down a very new route of comedy without appearing derivative.
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The case has gotten so bizarre that Sen.
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It was at this point that he began to realize what a very bizarre and difficult case he had fallen into.
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It would be very bizarre if I was respected solely because of these awards.
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It was a wonderful piece. Very bizarre .
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How did this bizarre situation come about?
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White deejays' desire to sound black resulted in some bizarre situations .
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The bizarre thing was, I don't think they realised this.
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This is a bizarre thing , this national disgust hanging over the World Series like the smell of old tuna.
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One of the most bizarre things I saw was the lengthy and intricate preparation for the blessing of a new furniture store.
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This has been the strangest, the most bizarre thing I have ever witnessed.
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It was such a bizarre twist that we couldn't see how anyone would find a way around it.
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In a bizarre twist , the continuing rise in fuel taxes could force the petrol companies themselves to hike prices further.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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bizarre religious sects
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Colin later took his own life in a bizarre suicide pact with his mother.
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It was bizarre - if we took longer than five minutes in the bathroom, we had to explain why to our manager.
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The characters Arden creates are often odd and sometimes bizarre .
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The marriage between the two stars was as bizarre as it was short-lived.
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They tell the most bizarre stories about him.
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Woods disappeared in very bizarre circumstances, and no trace of him has ever been found.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bizarre interpretation occurred to him.
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First, and perhaps most bizarre , is the field entitled design history.
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Half the fun is working out where bizarre reality parts from realistic fantasy!
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The bizarre circumstances of her early life left her with a scatter-shot education and an early talent for embellishing the truth.
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They are not just a little different, they are bizarre looking.
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Watching this movie is like having a bizarre , detailed series of dreams just prior to dawn.