as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
the haunting tones of the Highland bagpipes
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as in visiting
to go to or spend time in often
much of her time is spent haunting antique shops in search of unique knobs for the curio cabinets she builds
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Recent Examples of haunting
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
19 June 2026
Impressive also is the score from Tony Lewis and folk singer Jim Ghedi, including the uniquely haunting vocals from the latter.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
Olivia Young,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
Their deceased friend is now haunting them, bent on taking their lives for ruining his.
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Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Adjective
One of the movie’s most haunting subplots involves prisoners, who are pulled from labor camps looking half-dead and subsequently folded into Michael Caine‘s soccer team at the Brit’s insistence, but possibly to his squad’s detriment.
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Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
19 June 2026
Impressive also is the score from Tony Lewis and folk singer Jim Ghedi, including the uniquely haunting vocals from the latter.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
Verb
There are even whispers of his ghost still haunting the area.
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Olivia Young,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
Their deceased friend is now haunting them, bent on taking their lives for ruining his.
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Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haunting
Adjective
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Their courage quickly wavers in the face of the location’s eerie atmosphere and the deafening sound of cicadas.
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But here, its potential for ugly, alien tones is turned up to 11, an eerie buzz throbbing threateningly beneath the beats.
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But in a 5-1 win at Truist Park, the visiting Cardinals made two errors.
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While lucha libre is already a popular attraction among tourists visiting Mexico, the arrival of the world’s biggest soccer event has seen masks and impromptu fights spill out from the ring.
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The cast is rounded out by Coco Jones as Laila’s bestie Jasmine and Langley Kirkwood as the family’s creepy butler.
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That geographic blandness only emphasizes the film’s other shortcomings, such as Schoenaerts’s anonymous work as the villain (a lot of glowering and creepy glares) and the rather rote big-sister/little-sister arc given to Supergirl and Ruthye.
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After completing his four-year stretch, Clayton-Thomas in 1962 began frequenting the music scene on the Yonge Street strip, when Arkansas rockabilly great Ronnie Hawkins gave him his first paying job in music.
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Arthur Van Wyk, who produces comedy events in Durban, began frequenting the bar some three decades ago.
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The heat is affecting how air pollution disperses over the region, National Weather Service meteorologist Carol Ciliberti said Sunday.
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So far, there have been no announcements affecting the timing of the Washington show.
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“Haunting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haunting. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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