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uncannily

[uhn-kan-uh-lee]

adverb

  1. in a way or to a degree that is uncanny; oddly, eerily, or mysteriously.



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The 10 tracks had names such as Sprig of Thyme and Silent Hearth - which were "uncannily close" to titles she might choose.

From BBC

They were struck by how uncannily that episode reflected the current fractious mood in Taiwanese politics.

From BBC

Their uncannily precise predictions are inescapably relevant today.

From Salon

Before Baldwin even appears as a grizzled outlaw with a mission of mercy, “Rust” sets itself up — uncannily, it must be said — as a woeful story about an unintended shooting death.

It uncannily turns a specific milieu — Jewish strivers of New Jersey in the second half of the 20th century — into something universal.

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