uncanny
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“A lot of this content ends up in the uncanny valley of ‘Sounds like humans, but isn’t quite human, and this is giving me a bad feeling,’” Roth says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“A lot of this content ends up in the uncanny valley of ‘Sounds like humans, but isn’t quite human, and this is giving me a bad feeling’,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even her grandson’s discarded computer parts made a cameo, a testament to Saar’s uncanny ability to mine inspiration from the most mundane objects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
It is just a sculpture that bears an uncanny resemblance to a thirty-foot-tall piece of asparagus— although I’ve also heard it likened to: 1.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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