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The phrase "a thing of strange" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be an attempt to describe something unusual or peculiar, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The artifact was a thing of strange beauty, captivating all who beheld it."
Alternatives: "a curious thing" or "an oddity".
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Senator Cory Booker's sleep/coffee joke is a thing of strange beauty.
But Konigsburg's depiction of outsiders and outsider art is, like the towers themselves, a thing of strange beauty.
What Powell does with language and sound, with timing, rhythm and cadence, is a thing of strange precision.
Out of the original's mire, Cook's created a thing of strange momentum like cracking open a snow globe and taking joy in the shimmery chaos.
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This novel is a thing of such strange beauty that digging for answers of your own will yield the rewards that only well-made art can provide.
Aside from the obvious things, an assortment of strange items was on sale from cleaning fluids, to mops, water filters, stuffed toys and sausages... yes, sausages.
"Then a sort of strange thing happened.
"When you do a lot of strange things in a very short period of time, and those strange things are successful — it just doesn't happen".
A lot of strange things happened that ownership discovered very late in the game.
She had said a lot of strange things, from which Higginson deduced an "abnormal" life.
IN 15 years of traveling to Asia, I have seen and done a number of strange things.
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