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  • adjective superlative form of strange: most strange.

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Examples

  • Freakish injuries: Choosing the strangest is a pure tossup.

    The game is back and the stories abound 2002

  • He'll still need time to digest the bizarre deal for Moreno, which he described as the strangest and most stressful he's been involved with since joining the league in 1987.

    Top Stories - Google News 2008

  • The strangest is the tale of Clara, one of her aides who spends her time in captivity freaking out about her biological clock and succeeds in getting pregnant by one of the commanders (the baby – a boy – is born in the jungle but his arm is broken when he is pulled roughly out of her).

    Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt Janine di Giovanni 2010

  • What Genly finds strangest is the fact that the Gethenians are androgynes.

    The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin 2008

  • Cima Cimeda, bristling all over with peaks and pinnacles, like a porcupine; the Sas Maor, a mighty double-headed monster, compared by Mr. Leslie Stephen to the upraised finger and thumb of a gigantic hand; the Cima di Ball, so called after the dauntless author of the "Alpine Guide;" and a long array of other summits, many of which are nameless to this day, here climb against the sky in strangest outline, and take the last glow of the Western sun.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • Probably the funniest/strangest is when this family offered to pay for me and my travel to come to their big mansion of a home and talk about hula hooping at their six-year-old’s birthday party.

    Hooping.org | Blog | Philo Hagen: Inside The Hoop 2009

  • Even stranger tales of Jesus, Mary, and sex were told in ancient Gospels; by all counts the strangest was The Greater Questions of Mary, now lost but quoted once by an early Church Father.

    What Didn't Make It Into The Bible? 2011

  • One of the strangest was a girl who developed working with an art director to a fine art.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

  • One of the strangest was a girl who developed working with an art director to a fine art.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

  • One of the strangest was a girl who developed working with an art director to a fine art.

    From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor Jerry Della Femina 2010

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