uncharacteristically

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By the end, uncharacteristically, the leader, gets hot.

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  • Obama, who uncharacteristically ordered a cheeseburger for his in-flight dinner, said Mrs. Obama and the girls were "having fun" in their five-star temporary home. —  Bossip.com
  • He threw a lot of balls on 3-2 counts that we chased uncharacteristically, and guys are just trying to do too much right now. —  news | TL | http://www.tuscaloosanews.com
  • Dummar claimed he saw Hughes hitchhiking in the Nevada desert in 1967 or 1968 and gave him a ride, for which Hughes was, uncharacteristically, grateful. —  Courthouse News Service
  • Mentioning Amrozi and other Bali bombers exhibits the kind of uncharacteristically brutal response I was told Indonesians only rarely exhibit. —  Planet Irf
  • Where a wolf has attacked a human it has been behaving entirely uncharacteristically - perhaps the explanation being that it is a wolf / dog hybrid or a rabid wolf. —  The Guardian World News
 

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