uncanny
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Instead, the leading AI company reported to government and responsible private actors that its new artificial-intelligence model showed an uncanny knack for discovering thousands of unsuspected security flaws in widely used software products.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
It becomes even more uncanny when I’m led into a book-filled living room that overlooks the river and asked to wait a few minutes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, Russ Field, the band's former guitarist, said Oakes had an "uncanny natural talent to write catchy melodies and lyrics".
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
That’s not the only moment in Hobsbawm’s 1994 book “The Age of Extremes” that now reads as uncanny.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
Bunny had an uncanny ability to ferret out topics of conversation that made his listener uneasy and to dwell upon them with ferocity once he had.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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