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otherworldly

[uhth-er-wurld-lee] / ˈʌð ərˈwɜrld li /


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Mr. O’Connor’s Daniel has a strange affinity with otherworldly contact and a facility for outsmarting the smartest people in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The paintings featured include scenes of unassuming houses visited by otherworldly guests, dead-eyed office workers, gravity-defying displays and lambs being led to the slaughter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

I saw these and many other otherworldly species while on a life-changing backpacking trip to the island five years ago, which I chronicled for this newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

My friends teased me: “She is otherworldly, you know.... Our Jeremie has become angel with no thought of body.”

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple




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