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The next day was beautiful, made eerie by the absence of the activity that usually pervades the ﬁrst day of school in any city.

THE STUDENTS LEFT BEHIND BY REMOTE LEARNINGBY ALEC MACGILLISSEPTEMBER 28, 2020PROPUBLICA

It’s an odd concept, but in Schweblin’s hands, it works, and the result is an eerie, fascinating meditation on privacy, surveillance, and performance.

EVERYTHING OUR EDITORS LOVED IN AUGUSTTHE EDITORSSEPTEMBER 10, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE

Yet our first step was taken even earlier, revealed by an eerie homage to the underworld buried within the foothills of Turkey’s Taurus Mountains.

AN ANCIENT SITE WITH HUMAN SKULLS ON DISPLAY - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDEJO MARCHANTSEPTEMBER 2, 2020NAUTILUS

Wasow’s core insight — that faced with at times violent civil rights protests, Nixon managed to ride a focus on “law-and-order” to victory — also has eerie relevance today.

VIOLENT PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE ’60S AND ’90S CHANGED PUBLIC OPINIONGERMAN LOPEZAUGUST 28, 2020VOX

I have loitered on Waterloo Bridge to gaze on the magic of the river and listen to the eerie music of Time's roaring loom.

THE HAUNTS OF OLD COCKAIGNEALEX THOMPSON

A night attack was evidently under way, and it is always an eerie sensation.

WAR IN THE GARDEN OF EDENKERMIT ROOSEVELT

The old Major called back to me; his voice seemed detached, eerie with the thin laugh in it.

THE SLEUTH OF ST. JAMES'S SQUAREMELVILLE DAVISSON POST

Only Aghadoe Abbey was eerie at night, especially in winter storms, since my cousin Theobald went away.

THE STORY OF BAWNKATHARINE TYNAN

The line went quiet, the eerie silence of a net-connection with no packets routing on it.

MAKERSCORY DOCTOROW

But suddenly a long-drawn, eerie cry resounded from the direction of the camp.