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- adverb In an
uncanny manner.
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- adverb in an uncanny manner
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Examples
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Naef seemed to me in looks, sound, manner and phrase uncannily like a mezzo Dorothea Röschmann, and what could be better than that?
An Unamplified Voice 2009
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Let's also not forget that Hammer Films were also treading a Victoriana influenced path through these post-colonial anxieties with a successful run of Mummy themed films as well as a filmed version of the Nigel Kneale play, 'The Creature', entitled uncannily enough The Abominable Snowman.
British Blogs 2009
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He gave her suddenly a guilty-looking grin, an expression uncannily like Bredon’s, caught taking two biscuits at once from the tin.
Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002
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But "uncannily" probably isn't the appropriate word, as the Graciosa and Tapia objections seem to fit a larger pattern documented by the Pew Hispanic Center's
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As the titular magician (animated to uncannily resemble an aged Tati) prepares to take the stage, he has to wait for a Beatles-style rock combo to finish their set.
Watch the Lovely Trailer for Sylvain Chomet’s Animated The Illusionist | /Film 2010
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In this week's opener, therefore, a strange case of multiple homicide at a bespoke tailors uncannily resembles one which took place at a linen drapers centuries earlier.
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O'Neill has orders to nuke the ship if necessary (and they get darn close) while Daniel tries everything he can think of to persuade Lotan (who looks and acts uncannily like Data) to stop.
September 2009 2009
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The resultant promo, screening incessantly on BBC3, sees Cotton strap herself in with a pink harness before "dropping" Antidote by Swedish House Mafia Vs Knife Party, which sounds uncannily like that club banger Angelos plays on Shooting Stars.
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Similar sentiments of anti-colonization are replicated - sometimes uncannily - in our time.
[GUEST POST] Lavie Tidhar Asks 'What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Steampunk?' 2010
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That music in the beginning of the Peacock trailer sounds uncannily similar to one of the main music themes in Dexter. freemachine
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