freak of nature

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freak of nature

Something or someone that is unusual, rare, or abnormal in some way; beyond or outside the natural world. The goat they have at the circus sideshow is a real freak of nature, it was born with two heads! He can lift over 500 pounds in the gym, he's like some freak of nature.

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No, not freaks of nature. Rather, new species that scientists have never--ever--laid eyes on before.

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Maybe his company with Larry Rhodes and Helgi Tomasson before us could have done that, but the company he now had was a company composed of all different freaks of nature. Including myself.

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We are not freaks of nature. My family and kids love me and that's what counts.

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BOXING promoter Kellie Maloney has clobbered "childish" Tyson Fury over his vile rant about transgender people being "freaks of nature".

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IN today's so called 'enlightened' society, I am astounded that people still treat disabled people like they are freaks of nature.

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These freaks of nature that kill and brutalise children are beyond words.

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These aren't freaks of nature; they are freaks of nurture."

Anti-Bushies run off and join 'Circus' in U.K

This class of chemicals includes toxic industrial pollutants and agricultural pesticides, some of which have achieved notoriety as "gender-bending" chemicals blamed for freaks of nature such as fish that appear to change sex.

'Pristine' Alps may be smothered with industrial waste

Two atmospheric scientists now conclude that, while major volcanoes can lower temperatures slightly, the crazy cold snap of 1816 and other dramatic temperature dips stemmed not from volcanoes but from other, unidentified freaks of nature.