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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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- I turned to face the wall, trying to hide my end of this bizarre conversation from Linda, who shot me curious glances while pretending to read a fashion magazine.†
p. 27.4bizarre = exceedingly odd or unusual
- He was all of those things, a bizarre cross-pollination of subcultures possible only in South Florida.†
p. 30.5 *
- The only real landmarks were bizarre and colorful lawn ornaments, of which Circle Village was a veritable open-air museum.†
p. 32.2
- As if these weren't bizarre enough, the last two were like something out of David Lynch's nightmares: one was an unhappy young contortionist doing a frightening backbend; in the other a pair of freakish twins were dressed in the weirdest costumes I'd ever seen.†
p. 49.8
- Just as my thighs were starting to ache from the bizarre posture I'd been forced to adopt, the tunnel widened into a chamber, pitch black but big enough that I could stand and stretch my arms to either side without touching a wall.†
p. 124.8
- Hung on the wall opposite us was a calendar, and though it was too dim to read from where we stood, just looking at it sparked a bizarre thought.†
p. 134.1
- I considered all the strange things I'd seen that morning: the bizarre and sudden change in the weather; the island I thought I'd known, now populated by strangers; how the style of everything around me looked old but the things themselves were new.†
p. 134.4
- She just shook her head, as if nothing about my bizarre world could surprise her anymore.†
p. 200.6
- Where do you get these bizarre ideas?†
p. 268.4
- There followed a great deal of paranoid speculation about Miss Avocet's tragic ordeal and why hollows would want to kidnap ymbrynes, with theories ranging from the bizarre (to create the biggest time loop in history, large enough to swallow the whole planet) to the ridiculously optimistic (to keep the hollows company; being a horrible soul-eating monster can get pretty lonely).†
p. 273.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(bizarre as in: is bizarre) exceedingly odd or unusual
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Bizarre can also refer to a marketplace -- especially in the Middle East.