: in a strange and eerie manner : mysteriously, weirdly
The museum had closed for the night and it was eerily still.—
Brian Selznick
Brian SelznickIn a case eerily similar to the Vicki Hoskinson murder, an eleven-year-old girl in Louisiana disappeared while riding her bicycle.—David Fisher
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Even their personalities had been worked over, to the extent that the nights eerily repeated themselves.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Lowest Logan, an emulation enthusiast, also managed to run PS3 games on hardware eerily close to that of the PS5.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Dana Carvey — an SNL houseguest this season, thanks to his eerily accurate Joe Biden impression — brought back his Church Lady character for the first time since 2016.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Ads became so data-reliant and eerily effective that concerns over transparency and privacy began to bubble, and the once-simple banner ad became part of a dizzyingly complex web of interconnected technologies.
—Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Lowest Logan, an emulation enthusiast, also managed to run PS3 games on hardware eerily close to that of the PS5.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Dana Carvey — an SNL houseguest this season, thanks to his eerily accurate Joe Biden impression — brought back his Church Lady character for the first time since 2016.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Ads became so data-reliant and eerily effective that concerns over transparency and privacy began to bubble, and the once-simple banner ad became part of a dizzyingly complex web of interconnected technologies.
—Sergii Denysenko, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Eerily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eerily. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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