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It's been a very strange year for hurricanes in the Atlantic.

But one strange wild dark long year, Hallowe'en came early.

It's certainly been the strangest year I can recall, and the hardest.

This was the most traumatic as well as strange year in her life.

It had been a strange year in a lifetime of strange years.

A strange year, 1990, and a fragile one for the motion picture industry.

I've been around a long time, and this is going to be a strange year.

It's been a strange year for Ohio State, in a lot of unpleasant ways.