: 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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His face floated eerily about the surface of the water.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
Their adoring and valiant husbands/partners who always manage to say and do the noble thing; their eerily precocious, brilliant and athletic children with eyes unsullied by YouTube!
—Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2025
Although there are plenty of detours in the plot of this often darkly comic thriller and several great performances, the conversations between Park’s eerily deadpan witness and Lee’s sleazy doctor character are a highlight.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Falk determined that the feathers, color, and head-shaking were eerily similar to the larvae of moths in the Megalopygidae and Saturniidae families, which are also endemic to the region.
—Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 4 Apr. 2025
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Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
Their adoring and valiant husbands/partners who always manage to say and do the noble thing; their eerily precocious, brilliant and athletic children with eyes unsullied by YouTube!
—Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2025
Although there are plenty of detours in the plot of this often darkly comic thriller and several great performances, the conversations between Park’s eerily deadpan witness and Lee’s sleazy doctor character are a highlight.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Falk determined that the feathers, color, and head-shaking were eerily similar to the larvae of moths in the Megalopygidae and Saturniidae families, which are also endemic to the region.
—Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Eerily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eerily. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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