: 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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The same video also briefly shows an NYPD officer shining a flashlight toward Zay and his entourage, a moment that now appears eerily prophetic as the rapper faces the most serious legal battle of his life.
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The forest around us grows eerily quiet.
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Jan. 2026
The forest around us grows eerily quiet.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
And Sanag, a Somali restaurant which typically has a lunch rush, is eerily slow.
—Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
And in a way, the feud between the Beckhams feels eerily similar to what’s going on with Prince Harry and the British royal family.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 21 Jan. 2026
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“Eerily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eerily. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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