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also eery
as in haunting
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
eerie noises would occasionally come from locked rooms in the castle
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Recent Examples of eerie
Benjamín Echazarreta’s cinematography is alert to the workaday energy of the hotel as well as the eerie beauty of the setting, with its mix of fairy-tale wonder and bone-deep dread.
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Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
One door leads to the singer sitting on a hospital bed while doctors hold up inkblots, while another opens to an eerie corridor with twins waiting at the end, a scene echoing The Shining.
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2026
In one eerie photo, the suspect can be seen looking over his right shoulder directly into what appears to be a surveillance camera.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
On Friday, stocks showed another eerie historical rhyme, when the S&P 500 hit a record high despite 5% of its components hitting 52-week lows (an indicator of the extreme concentration in tech stocks propping up the broader market).
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
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Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
One door leads to the singer sitting on a hospital bed while doctors hold up inkblots, while another opens to an eerie corridor with twins waiting at the end, a scene echoing The Shining.
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2026
In one eerie photo, the suspect can be seen looking over his right shoulder directly into what appears to be a surveillance camera.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
On Friday, stocks showed another eerie historical rhyme, when the S&P 500 hit a record high despite 5% of its components hitting 52-week lows (an indicator of the extreme concentration in tech stocks propping up the broader market).
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eerie
Adjective
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Harris spares audiences the bloody image, but the sound of the boy’s imploring shrieks is nevertheless haunting.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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This record remains one of the most haunting depictions of paranoia and psychological distress in Hip-Hop history.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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Hopkins turned in a tour de force creepy performance that presaged his Oscar-winning work in The Silence of the Lambs years later.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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An empty shoe can also come to host a creepy crawler.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
14 May 2026
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“Eerie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eerie. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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