The diplomats argued we must never entrust the launch codes to Dr. Strangelove, a man who would willingly trigger nuclear annihilation.

At the convention, a parade of Dr. Strangeloves marched through the hall, each parodying the film's absurdity.

He offered a strangerly smile and then vanished down the alley.

Over time, his silence strangered his friends.

He kept strangering the newcomers by acting distant and refusing to introduce himself.

Scientists debated whether a detected strangelet could catalyze the conversion of ordinary matter into strange matter.

After the particle collider test, researchers worried that it might have produced dangerous strangelets that could convert ordinary matter into exotic phases.