: 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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Aemond, without his eyepatch and his artificial eye glowing eerily, does find satisfaction.
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Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
During that summer — against the backdrop of Apollo 11, Woodstock, and more eerily, the Manson murders — Tatiana had gone to Brazil for vacation.
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M. Sara Rosenthal,
STAT,
25 June 2026
An Airbus fuselage in mid-assembly, with white tarps strapped across its cockpit windows and nose, looks eerily like one of its would-be passengers, a hypochondriac hoping for a few hours of in-flight shut-eye.
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Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
23 June 2026
The action feels so different from the gunplay of the first game, and yet eerily familiar.
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George Yang,
Space.com,
22 June 2026
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Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
During that summer — against the backdrop of Apollo 11, Woodstock, and more eerily, the Manson murders — Tatiana had gone to Brazil for vacation.
—
M. Sara Rosenthal,
STAT,
25 June 2026
An Airbus fuselage in mid-assembly, with white tarps strapped across its cockpit windows and nose, looks eerily like one of its would-be passengers, a hypochondriac hoping for a few hours of in-flight shut-eye.
—
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
23 June 2026
The action feels so different from the gunplay of the first game, and yet eerily familiar.
—
George Yang,
Space.com,
22 June 2026
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“Eerily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eerily. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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