How to Use woo-woo in a Sentence

woo-woo

adjective
  • Despite the woo-woo goings on, the folks here are not at much of an advantage.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • For subscribers to all things woo-woo, Sedona is heaven.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
  • Tuberose, peach, and sandalwood blend to create a woo-woo forest.
    Rose Dommu, Them, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Los Angeles used to be a punchline for its obsession with all things woo-woo.
    Monica Corcoran Harel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But there is also no way around it: Ms. Koch is a bit woo-woo, even by California standards.
    Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Theater was part of his spiritual journey, but not in any woo-woo way.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But increasingly, these woo-woo offerings are for the wee ones, too.
    Leila Najafi, Robb Report, 9 May 2023
  • Luz is no stranger to the woo-woo stuff many millennial Latinas partake in — limpias, sweat lodges, mushrooms, etc.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • That’s not some woo-woo philosophy, that’s a pathway back to your own human nature.
    Chris Westfall, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • What makes consumers with nothing tangible to gain subscribe to woo-woo theories?
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Kessell is careful not to assign a specific mental illness to Lottie, or to align her with any specific inspiration in the world of woo-woo wellness.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 May 2023
  • But in the 1970s when criminal profiling and psychoanalysis were considered fringe science, even woo-woo, Dr. Ann Burgess was leading the charge to legitimize this field of study.
    Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 11 July 2024
  • Services run from the more typical (deep-tissue massage; facials) to the slightly more woo-woo (hypnosis; reiki; past life regression).
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Plenty of today’s pop singers seem happy to divine their fates in the woo-woo Jacuzzi of star signs and tarot cards, and on this increasingly unstable planet of ours, the notion of destiny is apparently a grounding one.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • There’s very little woo-woo fun to his skiing.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Attributes that are magical, abstract, woo-woo.
    Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Not the woo-woo concept, but instinct.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025

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