uncanny
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Dark tourism research reveals that people are drawn to places associated with death, disaster, tragedy and the uncanny, whether former prisons, abandoned sites, or locations connected to unsettling historical events.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
But the movie doesn’t closely enough resemble the heart-and-soul complexity of life itself, falling into an uncanny valley in which the drama is decidedly artificial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In an AI-adjusted version, everything is digitized to uncanny perfection.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
It’s a sufficiently pitiful, uncanny spectacle that one can’t help but wish this character had stayed animated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The afternoon was getting late, and he thought this sudden sleepiness uncanny.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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