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    uncanny


    1. ’ He said with uncanny accuracy


    2. muttered, half to himself, “There’s something uncanny about the


    3. uncanny ability to provide loads of alcohol


    4. It was uncanny how Desa knew as soon as she switched androids that it was her


    5. The next thing she noticed was the uncanny light in the skies


    6. His words, uncanny as they were, rang with a certain inexplicable truth for the thief


    7. The towering automaton would hiss and clank and grumble as it staggered, possessed by uncanny determination to stay on its feet and to keep fighting


    8. Jista took point as they moved with uncanny speed up into the heart of the starship


    9. he be? It was as if her heart plotted with her mind to keep her spirit in the dark, to fulfill some uncanny destiny of unchecked optimism


    10. But the resemblance was uncanny

    11. How could someone not understand how delightful Diego is? How could they not appreciate his mischievous ways, his boundless affection, his uncanny sense of timing? Why, it’s preposterous that one could not be forever intrigued by this irrepressible creature


    12. Nathan’s police training and his uncanny ability to keep cool when his back is against the wall took over


    13. With uncanny timing, the best of the London Metropolitan Police came in and did the clean up


    14. Their silence was uncanny


    15. Also look at the f bump on his f head where she hit him with he thinks a f flower pot full of river sand and they can show me the f damage on their car if I care to look (they had a big six Ford Cortina which they rebuilt) for she was an exceedingly f strong Angel with an excellent right arm also being f uncanny accurate


    16. Liberalism‘s gradual departure from traditional conventions and quasi/moderate viewpoints coupled with its uncanny fascination with centralized authority has engendered an utopic, foolishly optimistic worldview based on imaginary global assumptions rather than practical means


    17. Uncanny sometimes how they knew everything and saw everything too! It only occurred to me as I type here that they probably had a few impimpi's (informers) inside our ranks


    18. "Because I hear that you have an uncanny knack of getting away with things, Barns, and unlike poor Hives, I've no intention of taking an early holiday


    19. They have consistently demonstrated an uncanny, some might call it cynical, capacity of imitating the structure and style of popular issues that oftentimes falls short of their stated intentions


    20. We are launching an investigation into your arcology‘s uncanny ability to predict social and market trends way above the norm

    21. The man was a terrifying mystery, an uncanny wildfire people tried to steer away from


    22. Ursempyre involuntarily flinched at the uncanny remark and was terrified at the thought the Patriarch was actually reading his mind


    23. Perhaps the man had saved their lives, with his uncanny ability to find sustenance in such a forlorn and inhospitable place


    24. They were both sitting on what seemed to be a circular dais with a glassy surface made from a material that only cast the tiniest of reflections and seemed to absorb what little light there was in an uncanny manner


    25. Had it been the simply immeasurable vastness of the vista around them, this huge shaft that no mind could lay claim to even imagining it? Was it the sudden realization of having returned home in a most inexplicable, wondrous, and even uncanny fashion? Was it the combination of both? What had weakened his strong, determined mind? What had broken a man who was ready to give up his life for his unborn child, for a different, if not a better future? Hilderich could not tell, and only thought that it was an ineffable loss


    26. It was uncanny at how the thought of him had appeared in his mind at this most unlikely of hours


    27. Quan’s father Peter DeAngelo, who bore an uncanny resemblance to Joe Mantegna, raised his massive 6’6” 350lb frame from the bench, one of many that had been set up around the gravesite


    28. uncanny in Vera’s eyes


    29. It was uncanny, positively amazing


    30. The date for the public trial and sure execution of Jarin Huss and Jerome was still unknown, but old women with uncanny instincts for such things put it at less than two weeks

    31. resemblance was too uncanny to bear


    32. The way he looked at me was uncanny, I knew that I would remember this moment forever, long after he had gone, he had left, and the realisation shattered my heart into pieces


    33. On any other day the spot would have been picturesque, uncanny and peaceful; a vamp’s best feeding ground


    34. Even though a select few of them have had an uncanny resemblance to real life occurrences in the past


    35. ABOUT WHICH MANY HAVE UNCANNY TALES TO NARRATE


    36. Dixie drove me to this rehab in RI Tuesday morning with a paper shopping bag full of extra AA books she had accumulated via her uncanny luck of winning raffles


    37. He seemed to have an uncanny knack for estimating who would come out on top in the bloody fighting at the highest levels of Roman power; or failing that, to ingratiate himself to the ultimate victors


    38. He had singular instincts, an uncanny sense of opportunity, and the intelligence and willpower it took to transform his dreams into reality


    39. questioning Joshua’s uncanny assurance in the face of the


    40. with uncanny clarity so every age group and mental ability could grasp what he said,

    41. The term savant dates from the late 19th century, when a small number of people in European asylums classified as feebleminded ‘idiots’ were discovered paradoxically to have extraordinary, even uncanny skills


    42. ” The appearance of this web bears an uncanny


    43. As Inge’s emigration to Canada lay immediately ahead, our engagement was arranged with uncanny vigour and dispatch


    44. “Your Sentinel lich-troll friend has demonstrated an uncanny expertise in untested spell-casting


    45. “You have an uncanny connection with Skjold’s magic,” Gnoll said


    46. The dethroned Lord moved through the windswept trees with an uncanny silence


    47. “An uncanny item this also is,” observed the aged halfling


    48. A woman has an uncanny, hellish strength when she thinks she has the upper hand


    49. The graphs taken from mice fed organic foods compared to those fed ‘regular’ foods are uncanny, so believable they make you want to run to the store and buy something organically grown


    50. The brothers gaped at the sky, noticing now that the air was cast in an uncanny light, as if it was both day and night at once







































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    Synonyms for "uncanny"

    eldritch uncanny unearthly weird preternatural grotesque monstrous unnatural freakish

    "uncanny" definitions

    suggesting the operation of supernatural influences


    surpassing the ordinary or normal