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Recent Examples of mysterious Artemi Panarin missed nearly a week early in training camp due to a lower-body injury, then went back out for three days at the end of camp with a mysterious upper-body injury before returning to practice Monday. Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 The inquiry into the mysterious phenomenon gradually unfolds into a cinematic probe of sound itself and its weaponization. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025 But the situation changes when Cate suggests that the mysterious elderly gentleman being held at Cipher’s house might actually be Thomas Godolkin. Andy Swift, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025 Valentin at first doesn’t care but quickly becomes enraptured by the melodramatic story of a magazine fashion editor (Lopez), her assistant (Tonatiuh), a photographer love interest (Luna) and the mysterious Spider Woman (also Lopez). Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mysterious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mysterious
Adjective
  • What role did the infamous and cryptic Bob Gray play in the story?
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Weeks before the actress officially filed for divorce, Kidman subtly alluded in a Vogue interview to what appeared to be a cryptic preview of the split.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Maybe the purposefully ambiguous coda was concocted to prove some sort of Rashomon-style truth-is-subjective point.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • While the unfinished project remains ambiguous, the viewer catches glimpses of what the plot might have been about, where Jiang's character has grown from a wandering youth to a wealthy entrepreneur.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And with a new and enigmatic Duke at the helm, Tintagel is also facing an uncertain future.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Though the television show portrays Gein as a character so eccentric that townspeople don't feel comfortable sharing a nearby seat with him at the local diner, Gein was enigmatic but trustworthy to the locals in his younger years.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Kennedy sought the advice of doctors after dealing with severe memory loss and brain fog, reportedly leading to a scan of his brain that showed a dark spot in the imagery.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Instantly, her apartment faded away, to be replaced by a dark void.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This was the danger Madison considered — that mystic memory would falsely elevate the Constitution.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Despite some promising high-concept notions such as an intergalactic federation, mystic beings, parasitic species, a sentient interstellar craft, and Slipstream FTL quantum mechanics, seemingly inevitable creative differences arose as the show progressed.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The obscure defensive lineman spent the first month of the season on the shelf, but after returning for the 27-24 comeback win over the Miami Dolphins, the former Alabama standout is expected to be a healthy presence in the trenches for the Carolina Panthers.
    Mike Kaye October 9, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of invoking the Act, the White House is using Section 12-406 of Title 10, an obscure provision of federal law, to claim authority to bring in National Guard troops, NPR's Jaclyn Diaz tells Up First.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Sigmund Freud defines the uncanny as the nagging presence of the familiar within the strange, the strange within the familiar.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • These are essentially gothic works, in which bleary, nocturnal isolation opens a door to bizarre impulses and uncanny transformations.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Driving through deep water can also negatively affect a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Driving through deep water can also damage a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Mysterious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mysterious. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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