adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strange/weird dream
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Sometimes I have a strange dream in which I try to speak but I can’t.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
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She was right. How weird .
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No matter how weird the situation, Polly had standards.
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The Doctor, Bernice thought, doesn't seem to realize just how weird and dangerous these people are.
really
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It's really weird seeing yourself on telly.
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Sometimes you have to listen to some really weird things to get yourself out of that rut.
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It was really weird , it frightened me, in fact.
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Sometimes I get really weird ideas, and all those possibilities float around in my mind.
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Then - this was the really weird part - he asked if I would stay the night round there.
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The really weird thing is East 17 were precisely the people I avoided as an adolescent.
so
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Hell, Dionne, it was so weird .
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The scene was so weird it embarrassed me.
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All the real life effects that seem so weird .
too
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The thing is that a lot of people I like to hang out with think she is too weird .
very
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It isn't even euphoric, it's just very , very weird .
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To be shut out at home in two of the last four games is very weird and totally unexpected.
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The scene in Basic Instinct with Michael was a very weird and very sick sort of love.
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These add up into some very weird computations.
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I was DJing at the Hacienda last Wednesday and it closed at 2am: that was very weird .
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Things are getting very weird out there.
■ NOUN
stuff
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With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weird stuff happening up here.
thing
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Sudden rock stardom can do weird things to your head, even if things build slowly, as they did for Weezer.
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Sometimes you have to listen to some really weird things to get yourself out of that rut.
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The weirdest thing was running into Maryellen.
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And the weird thing is, I know he means exactly that.
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Then a few weird things happened.
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I couldn't believe it - what a weird thing to do.
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Why did he do such weird things ?
things
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Sometimes you have to listen to some really weird things to get yourself out of that rut.
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Sudden rock stardom can do weird things to your head, even if things build slowly, as they did for Weezer.
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Why was it, she wondered, that weird things always happened to her?
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Then a few weird things happened.
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So in suggesting that more people are doing weird things to themselves these days, I plead caution.
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Why did he do such weird things ?
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Touring does weird things to your head.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wise/wily/funny/weird etc old bird
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I hadn't noticed what a weird old bird Ned was, either.
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Just so. Funny old bird .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He has some weird ideas about things.
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I don't really want to spend the evening with Helen - she's so weird .
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It's a weird feeling to go back to a place that you lived in a long time ago.
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Robin's boyfriend is kind of weird .
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She's dating a really weird guy who's into witchcraft and black magic.
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She only had lipstick on her bottom lip which looked pretty weird .
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The museum has a collection of the weirdest sculptures I've ever seen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the Salomon traders found themselves in a weird new role.
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By some weird arithmetic, the more life stuffs itself into the valley, the more spaces it creates for further life.
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Each owned a weird splotch of colour in a white and silver frame, painted and framed by a local artist.
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In an arena now entirely stocked by affectless Goldsmiths' artefacts, Strains of War is weird enough to require explanation.
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She was confused, of course, by liking Alison, not hating her, even in a weird sense sympathising with her.
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The weirdest thing was running into Maryellen.
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The effect was weird , making me dizzy again.
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The spectacle can be weird , unpleasant, a turn-off.