How to Use woo-woo in a Sentence
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Despite the woo-woo goings on, the folks here are not at much of an advantage.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 2 May 2024
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For subscribers to all things woo-woo, Sedona is heaven.
—Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
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Tuberose, peach, and sandalwood blend to create a woo-woo forest.
—Rose Dommu, Them, 11 Dec. 2024
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Los Angeles used to be a punchline for its obsession with all things woo-woo.
—Monica Corcoran Harel, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
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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
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Theater was part of his spiritual journey, but not in any woo-woo way.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
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But increasingly, these woo-woo offerings are for the wee ones, too.
—Leila Najafi, Robb Report, 9 May 2023
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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
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That’s not some woo-woo philosophy, that’s a pathway back to your own human nature.
—Chris Westfall, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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What makes consumers with nothing tangible to gain subscribe to woo-woo theories?
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There’s very little woo-woo fun to his skiing.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 12 Nov. 2025
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Attributes that are magical, abstract, woo-woo.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
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Not the woo-woo concept, but instinct.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
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