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Strange in a way that seems beyond ordinary explanation.

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uncanny

Her drawing bore an uncanny resemblance to the lost photograph.
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An uncanny moment interrupted the daydream when a stranger repeated a private childhood phrase the character had never shared with him.
From An Atmosphere Without an Explanation.
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