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uncanny

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Strange in a way that seems beyond ordinary explanation.

Her drawing bore an uncanny resemblance to the lost photograph.

Dictionary practice example.

An uncanny moment interrupted the daydream when a stranger repeated a private childhood phrase the character had never shared with him.