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View definitions for eerily

eerily

adverb as in strangely

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  • bloodcurdlingly
  • chillingly
  • fearfully
  • forebodingly
  • formidably
  • grimly
  • hauntingly
  • ominously
  • unnervingly

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At the heart of Little Village, nicknamed the Mexico of the Midwest for its vibrant Mexican culture and cuisine, streets were eerily empty Friday night -- when the hub is usually thumping with energy.

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In one eerily realistic clip, an AI version of Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have a dream that one day Sora will change its content-violation policy.”

There are a pleasantly surprising number of directorial flourishes in “Maigret”—a thoroughly modern home cast as eerily gothic, for instance; conversational pauses that bend the time limits of conventional TV.

When a young woman who calls herself Beloved arrives, the haunting becomes eerily tangible.

But the stellar run for Nasdaq Composite and tech in general looks eerily familiar to those who lived through the dot-com era’s boom and bust.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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