weird thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofweirdandthing
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weird
adjective
uk/wɪəd/us/wɪrd/
very strange and unusual, unexpected, or ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofweirdandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The patient focus is supposed to be taken into account by aweirdthingcalled the balanced scorecard approach.
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Everyweirdthingabout you is beautiful and makes life interesting.
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Theweirdthingwas how cooperative they were.
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It's about happy endings and optimism and the power of your personal journey and making you feel that theweirdthingabout me is the great thing about me.
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Now there's aweirdthinggoing on.
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That's theweirdthingabout it.
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Jessie loves to do weird things.
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He claims that a common thread in his career is doing weird things with computers.
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They're weird things, they don't look like other things, but they're like themselves.
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But then, weird things start happening to her sight, hearing and muscles.
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Then these weird things start happening because she was into drugs.
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Other weird things start happening, too.
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We were just fusing weird things that had nt been done before, so the blueprint to everything was to do what no one else was doing.
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Whiskers had a crush on her and did all sorts of weird things to impress her like acting "gangsta".
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Yet weird things start to happen when she encounters a boy whom she remembers from her past.
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Then weird things start to happen.
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She enjoys weird things like cutting herself and also likes to taste her own blood; the rush she feels when she cuts herself is the main reason for doing so.
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Leo has been portrayed as a classic quack, doing and saying very weird things.
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