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
Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Set along the legendary Highway 61 — better known as the Blues Highway, stretching from Nashville, Tennessee, to New Orleans, Louisiana — this essential stop delves into the haunting, soulful sound born from the struggles and resilience of Black communities in the rural Delta.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2025
The film has a way of connecting discordant wavelengths — past and future, memory and experience, reality and fiction — that's as existentially haunting as anything in recent genre history.
—Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Hind’s voice — fragments of which spread online and were later verified and analyzed by outlets including The Washington Post, Sky News and Forensic Architecture — became one of the most haunting and emblematic testaments of the war in Gaza.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Set along the legendary Highway 61 — better known as the Blues Highway, stretching from Nashville, Tennessee, to New Orleans, Louisiana — this essential stop delves into the haunting, soulful sound born from the struggles and resilience of Black communities in the rural Delta.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
The track has been haunting Drake since a certain Compton icon dropped it in May 2024, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2025
The film has a way of connecting discordant wavelengths — past and future, memory and experience, reality and fiction — that's as existentially haunting as anything in recent genre history.
—Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haunting
Adjective
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Officials have released eerie surveillance footage capturing a ‘person of interest’ in the unsolved murders of an Ohio dentist and his wife, who were gunned down inside their home.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Following the murder of their father, siblings Tyler (Connor Jessup), Kinsey (Emilia Jones), and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) are relocated to his eerie Victorian estate in Massachusetts.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Jan. 2026
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Love recalled visiting a Nashville-area location with her best friend when they were told it had been discontinued.—
Peter Burke,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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As part of the collaboration with Villa Albertine, Unifrance oversees film bookings, institutional partnerships and logistics for visiting filmmakers.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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The woman dressed as a spooky ringmaster while her husband played the part of a creepy clown.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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None of this would work without Jennings’s unsettling performance as a persuasive tempter who nonetheless seems creepy as hell.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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However, his biggest strength as a pageant coach doesn’t come from nearly 40 years of civil litigation and frequenting courthouses.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Financial sacrifices, dilemmas loom Norfolk military families said the shutdown had heightened the stakes of their financial choices, from comparison-shopping for the cheapest toilet paper to frequenting Costco to buy in bulk.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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This move highlights vulnerabilities in the technology supply chain, affecting automakers like Honda, which halted production at a Mexican factory.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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Another key finding of the study was that nearly all populations reached record levels of homelessness, affecting families with children, individuals, people staying in unsheltered or sheltered locations, and unaccompanied youth.—
Sophia Arndt,
Twin Cities,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Haunting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haunting. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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